texts: Applescript giving error 1728 when checking if file exists

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I'm trying to make compressing a video file using HandBrake easier through applescript and have been basing most of the code off of templates I've found.
At this point in the code, the user has specified the source file and the destination folder.
Instead of HandBrakeCLI just blindly overwriting a file with the same name in the destination folder, I wanted Finder to do a check and, if a file with the same does already exist in the destination folder, then I wanted to have the filename appended with the current date and time before the extension.
Everything worked fine until I started adding the "if exists" code.

Here's the chunk of code:

tell application "Finder"
    set newFilepathPOSIX to POSIX path of dest_folder
    set newFilepathPOSIX to newFilepathPOSIX & "video.mp4"
    -- Check if file with same name exists
    if exists file newFilepathPOSIX then
        display dialog "There is already a file named \"video.mp4\". Do you want to replace the file?" buttons {"Quit", "No", "Yes"} cancel button 1
        if result = {button returned:"No"} then
            set newFilepathPOSIX to POSIX path of dest_folder
            set newFilepathPOSIX to newFilepathPOSIX & "video" & getDateAsString & ".mp4"
        end if
    end if
    set newFilepathPOSIX to quoted form of newFilepathPOSIX
    set shellCommand to "/Volumes/Flash Drive/HandBrakeCLI -i " & origFilepathPOSIX & " -o " & newFilepathPOSIX & " --preset=\"Classic\""
end tell

to getDateAsString from t
    set creationDateString to year of t as string
    set creationDateString to creationDateString & text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & getMonthNum(t) as string)
    set creationDateString to creationDateString & text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & day of t as string)
    set creationDateString to creationDateString & text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & hours of t as string)
    set creationDateString to creationDateString & text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & minutes of t as string)
    set creationDateString to creationDateString & text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & seconds of t as string)
    return creationDateString
end getDateAsString

Here's what it returns:

exists file "/Users/me/Box Documents/My Folder/video.mp4"
    --> false

If I add "as POSIX file" to the "if exists" line, this is what it returns:

get file "/Users/me/Box Documents/My Folder/video.mp4"
    --> error number -1728 from file "/Users/me/Box Documents/My Folder/video.mp4"
exists file "My HD:Users:me:Box Documents:My Folder:video.mp4"
    --> true
display dialog "There is already a file named \"video.mp4\". Do you want to replace the file?" buttons {"Quit", "No", "Yes"} cancel button 1
    --> {button returned:"No"}

After this, it errored out.
Totally new at this so hopefully I've given enough detail without giving away way too much detail.


texts: Choppy/Jerky Video Performance on MacBook Pro 13" 2016

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I upgraded from a Late 2013 MacBook Pro 15" to the 2016 13" MacBook Pro. On my old laptop, watching YouTube videos, and PlayStation Vue was smooth. However, on this new laptop, the video is jerky/choppy. For example, if I watch the news and the marque slides at the bottom of the screen, it slides smoothly for a moment, then studders, then smoothly again.

The CPU is not overly active; I'm not running any other programs. I tried using Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, with the the same result. The Internet speed is 75gbs so that's not the issue.

I think I've narrowed it down to Flash videos, however even with iTunes movies purchased from Apple, the video appear to be very low frame rate. For example, scenes that pan a room are not smooth. Perhaps this is just due to the video encoding of iTunes movies.

Since posting this question, I called Apple and they don't think there is a hardware problem. Strangely, on one of my tests with Apple support, I used YouTube to play a 4k video and it appeared very smooth. I cannot tell if YouTube is using the HTML5 native video play in the browser or Flash.

Also, in all cases, the sound is fine in all videos I watched.

The new MacBook Pro has the upgraded i7 processor, and 16GB of RAM and the Iris 550 video chipset.

Should I be getting better performance from this laptop? Is there anything I can do to correct this problem?


texts: Launch of terminal after system login takes around 60 sec, is there a way to speed it up?

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Here is my .bash_profile

export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"
export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"

export PS1="\[\033[36m\]\u\[\033[m\]@\[\033[32m\]\h:\[\033[33;1m\]\w\[\033[m\]\$ "
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad

alias ls='ls -GFh'
alias cat='ccat'
alias chrome='open -a Google\ Chrome'
alias brave='open -a Brave\ Browser'
alias db='open -a DBBrowserforSQLite'
alias sublime='open -a Sublime\ Text'

.bashrc is empty

Successive terminal window launch or new tab openings are quite fast.


texts: Why does Google Chrome replace "fl" with blocks on all PDFs it shows, but Adobe Reader works fine?

texts: When I open PDFs in Chrome that contain words like "files", the "fi" is replaced by a square block. Opening the same PDF in Adobe Reader or Preview works fine.  Anyway to fix this?


texts: Can I route add automatically when a network interface is added?

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Every morning, I connect my MacBook to my company network with the Apple USB Ethernet Adapter:

Then open the Terminal to add routes in order to access intranet servers:

 $ sudo route add -net 192.168.21.0/24 192.168.8.8
 $ sudo route add -net 192.168.22.0/24 192.168.8.8
 $ sudo route add -net 192.168.23.0/24 192.168.8.8

Is there a way that triggered by a new network interface (with a certain name) is added, then auto run the above route add commands?


texts: The font Calibri is missing. Your text might look different with Pages, Numbers

texts: My documents do not contain that font anywhere. But the iPad still complains about this. How can I remove completely these font from document? Is there a way to do this? Maybe there are special invisible chars with that font?


texts:
I know that there's Window>Scale>100/75/50% but the scale of the retina iPad simulator is still too big for my screen to be able to test anything.

Is there a way I can scale the size of the iOS simulator smaller than one of the default values? I need it to scale down at least to 25% for my screen size to accommodate the window.


texts:
I am using a Macbook Air. I used system("cls"); and system("clear").

That would not work. It displays on the output screen (xcode output screen) that the command cannot be found. I am using the C compiler, not C++.

How do I clear the output screen on Xcode? Please guide me through the steps in doing this.


texts: What does the "Transfer Using Quick Start" do?

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Apple offers several methods to transfer settings from an old phone to a new one. A particularly promising sounding one is the "Quick Start" approach, which begins promisingly enough with some cool automatic recognition of the new device. But things pretty much end there. Nothing about actually transferring seems to be any different than any other method: one still has to restore from either an iTunes or and iCloud backup as far as I can tell.

What does the "Quick Start" method actually transfer? Is restoring from a separate backup still necessary to complete the process of transferring settings, apps, and keychain info from the old iOS device?


texts: Issue installing "JetDrive 720" SSD to MBP late 2012 Retina

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I have a Retina macbook Pro late 2012 running OS X High Sierra version 10.13.4. I have decided to upgrade my SSD because 120GB is not enough, therefore, I bought a JetDrive 720 SSD (240GB) from Amazon to perform a DIY upgrade.

It should be pretty straight forward but I am having the following error when I try to clone the original drive into the new drive.

I have followed the instructions from the manufacturer but it simply isn't working. Instructions: Transcend JetDrive 720 Manual

I suspect that the issue is with APFS.


texts: Removing apps from 'Mobile Applications' that aren't in iTunes?

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I'm running iTunes on Windows 7, and at some point (or rather, at multiple points) I must have accidentally pressed the 'Cancel' button when it asks if I want to remove the app from my hard drive when deleting it in iTunes

The net result is that I have 503 apps in iTunes, and 598 apps in my 'Mobile Applications' folder.

Is there anyway I can tidy these up? ie some way within iTunes that will clear the Mobile Applications folder of any apps that aren't in my iTunes liberary?

Thanks


texts: How to fix multiple errors when installing Homebrew on OSX Lion (mainly OSXFUSE and Mono related)

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I'm trying to install Homebrew but I'm getting multiple errors when brew doctor is run.

I'm a complete noob at this and I've tried uninstalling Homebrew and re-installing, but still not working.

Here's what it shows:

Warning: /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework detected
This can be picked up by CMake's build system and likely cause the build to
fail. You may need to move this file out of the way to compile CMake.

Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected dylibs:
    /usr/local/lib/libmacfuse_i32.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libmacfuse_i64.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libmpg123.0.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libosxfuse_i32.2.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libosxfuse_i64.2.dylib

Warning: Unbrewed .la files were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected .la files:
    /usr/local/lib/libosxfuse_i32.la
    /usr/local/lib/libosxfuse_i64.la

Warning: Unbrewed .pc files were found in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected .pc files:
    /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/osxfuse.pc

Could anyone help me? What is Mono? I don't remember installing it. How could I find out what programmes I use are using Mono? If they're not important, maybe I could un-install Mono? And it seems like a lot of other errors are based on OSXFUSE. Could I move those to another place? Is there another way other than un-installing it? Thanks a million.


texts: How to install recent clang++ with Homebrew?

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I've tried

brew install llvm

but after that I cannot find any clang++* executable under /usr/local.

Thus my question: How to get clang++ via Homebrew?


texts: How can I capture a screenshot of an entire webpage in iPhone's Safari browser?

texts: How to capture screenshot of entire webpage in iPhone's Safari browser like I can take in my Desktop with Help of Firefox Addon called Fireshot?


texts: TouchID does not lock MacBook Pro anymore on macOS Big Sur 11.2

texts: Is it just me or this feature was removed after updating to Big Sur 11.2?


texts: External Filevault disk permissions don't match users on migrated computer

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I created a (bootable) backup disk for use in Carbon Copy Cloner and applied Filevault 2 following the CCC instructions. I am using the backup disk to transfer the files to a new computer. The old computer is running Yosemite. The new computer is running High Sierra. I have three users on the old computer, call them A, B and C. A is an administrator, the others are not. User B is the one I use as my main active user for ordinary use. I have successfully done the transfer, so the role of the backup disk is to fill in any gaps or inconsistencies that I may come across. Thus I would still like to be able to read individual files on the backup disk.

Unfortunately, the users on the two computers don't match, which complicates accessing the files.

I set up the new computer with FileVault, for which I had to create a user (administrator). I wanted it to have the same name as the administrator on the old computer; however, when I used migration assistant to transfer the files (from the backup disk, rather than directly from the old computer, which I somehow thought would be safer), it did not integrate the two administrator users, but required me to give a new name to the transferred user A. That was only an inconvenience.

The problem is that when I now try to access the backup disk from the new computer, it misaligns the users in terms of permissions. I will call the administrator that I set up initially on the new computer user A'. I migrated the files for users A and B, which have been set up on the new computer. However, when I access the backup disk,

the files in the /Users folder for user A on the backup disk are
recognised as being owned by user A' on the new computer,
those for
user B on the backup as owned by user A on the new computer, and /
those for user C on the backup as owned by user B on the new
computer.

It looks as though it has somehow seen that there are three users in each case, and lined up the first user with the first set of files, and so on, without comparing the names - presumably it is looking at how the users are indexed internally.

What is the best way to sort this out? I could change the backup disk to Ignore ownership, but I am hesitant to do that, as I might want to be able to boot the old computer from it to check out some issue (as yet unanticipated). Alternatively, I could change the permissions on the /Users/[username] folder for each of the users on the backup disk setting Apply to enclosed items. If Apply to enclosed items works properly, that should solve the problem for accessing the files from the new computer, but it might also confuse the situtation should I ever try to boot from the backup disk.


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I have my iphone set up to sync contacts with Google. It works fine, for the most part. However, there are some contact cards that are not synced. I can find no rhyme or reason to why these are not synced yet others are.

Any ideas?


texts: Can someone please help me solve ?  The screen suddenly turned blank with strange colors on the left, as the picture shows.


texts: How to set a date-based x-axis in Numbers with incomplete data?

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I have a simple table (date, value) and I want to display that data in a chart.
This is my current chart:

As you can see, I don't have a value for each day, there is about one month between the last two dates. This makes my chart looks wrong, because it creates the same spaces between two dates, irrespectively of the date value.

If I create a new table with one row per day, I get the expected chart. But I need to create all that useless empty rows:

Is there a way to create a chart with a date-based x-axis? Can I create a chart that looks like the second one, but with the data from the first table?

Thanks.


texts: How do programs access ~/Library/Mail under OSX 10.14 (Mojave)

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After upgrading to 10.14, I am unable to access the ~/Library/Mail directory, either as the user or as root.

[~/Library/Mail 14:01:42]$ ls -l
ls: .: Operation not permitted
[~/Library/Mail 14:04:11]$

So that's pretty weird. It happens even if I am root.

No system flags are set on the directory.

So presumably, this is another system integrity or sandboxing thing. Unfortunately, I have code that wants to access the sqlite3 database inside the ~/Library/Mail directory.  So how do I grant my software access to my mail?

This seems to be related to the 10.14 privacy protections.


texts: When trying to install Windows 10 on 2011 iMac keep getting error 0x8007000D windows cannot open the required file D:\sources\install.wim

texts:
I am following the guide here How to install Windows 10 into a 2011 iMac without using the Boot Camp Assistant, an optical (DVD) drive or third party tools? and everything appears to work until I actually install Windows 10. From the guide mentioned, it seems you boot into the Windows 10 setup that you loaded to your Bootcamp Partition. Then, you type in the command that points to your USB flash drive to initiate the setup.

Right after I type the command, I get the error. It says "0x8007000D windows cannot open the required file D:\sources\install.wim make sure all the files required for installation are available..." I have tried several things to fix this problem. First off, the USB and the Bootcamp partition are ExFat, so they won't have the 4gb limit. I have used older versions of the Windows ISO on the flash drive, but every time I start the setup I get the same error. I have even tried using the Windows Media Creation tool to make a USB drive, and copied the BootCamp5 contents over to it, but when I try to load the AutoUnattended file, nothing happens, not even a new setup window. Any help would be greatly Appreciated.

Also, when I tried just running the setup from the ISO that was on the BOOTCAMP partition (instead of pointing it to the flashdrive), it gave me the same error. Is there a problem with ExFat?

My machine is a mid 2011 21.5 inch iMac running macOS High Sierra.

EDIT: Like I should've done from the start, I downloaded the exact build of Windows 10 that the tutorial used, 1703 from https://tb.rg-adguard.net/ I repeated the steps again and this time, the setup window emerged. So that is a nice workaround. But I would still like to know why the newer build didn't work even when I had ExFat formatted drives.


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iPhone 4.

When I'm in the app store, and I want to update an app, I go to the updates tab and I click update. It proceeds to open the app without updating it.

I have tried hard shutdown, soft shutdown, and deleting the app.

Any help?


texts: Cannot connect to Linked In on Chrome or Safari on OS-X SSL Issue

texts:
I tried fixing the issue of not being able to access LinkedLn by installing lots of certs from DigiCert in my Keychain and while that fixed LinkedIn, I then couldn't go to Github.com. I ended up having to restore my keychain from time machine, and for the /Library and /System/Library paths, I had to do the restore to a temp directory. THis only affects Safari and Chrome, and not Firefox.

Any way, I got my system back to accessing github, but LinkedIn still has the issue.

Is there any utility to properly check and fix SSL configuration issues on Mac OS X?

~/Library/Keychains
/Library/Keychains
/System/Library/Keychains

Should I maybe just trust the linked in cert (or digicert one)?

Safari gives me options:

Firefox shows LinkedIn as fine:

Next, digicert.com shows a SSL error on Chrome, but not on Safari:

Even more oddly, when I click for more info from Chrome, the Cert shows as valid!


texts: Why does Preivew.app automatically change the saturation of some images?

texts:
Some images seem to be automatically modified by preview when you open them - in particular, the color saturation changes.

For example, I see an image with a certain shade of red in Finder's cover flow, but when I open it in preview, that red is now slightly desaturated. If I save the image, cover flow now shows the desaturated red - so Preview.app is certainly doing something.

Why is it doing this and how do I make it stop?


texts: 10.8 Notification Center occasionally freezes system

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My Mac Pro 5,1 sometimes freezes when I open the Notification Center, and it usually recovers by itself about 10 minutes later.  I'd like to know why and how to fix it.
When this happens, the notification center will be half open, as shown in the screenshot. This happens about once a week, seemingly at random. Symptoms include:

Cmd-Tab does not work
Expose / Mission Control Spaces does not work.
Notification Center is frozen
Dock will not appear
I can't type text in any application
I can't drag to reposition windows on the screen
Cmd-Opt-Esc opens the Force Quit window, which functions properly
Spotlight works properly

Here is the Console's "all messages" log for a few minutes before and after the crash.
http://pastebin.com/NuGesUdy

UPDATE:  I've discovered two related things.  When this problem happens, Activity Monitor shows Dock using about 100% CPU. Meanwhile, fseventer shows that the .db files in ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/ are being accessed constantly. Also, I think I've tracked down the culprit to the MySQL installation part of XAMPP.  It turns out I can unfreeze the system every time by turning off MySQL. I'd still like to know why, and how to fix this.


texts: Is it possible to trigger a script on a notification center notification?

texts: I'm trying to hook into a "finished" event from a program that doesn't provide any native way to do it.  It does, however, post a notification to the notification center.  So I'm looking for a way to monitor notifications and run a script whenever my computer shows one, preferably with the notification context available.


texts: Is it normal for iPhone to take longer than 8 hours to erase contents and settings?

texts:
I've been waiting 8 hours now for my iPhone 5C to erase content and settings and still not finished.

How long is it normal to take to reset an iPhone to factory settings?


texts:
When I use dictation on my MacBook Pro 2015 w/ Retina Display, running macOS Catalina 10.15.2, the system-wide audio all mutes while dictation is listening.

How do I prevent this?

This answer from 2014 doesn't seem to work for me.


texts:
I am looking for something to create .pkg files to use with System Image Utility. The old school PackageMaker that was included in Xcode Aux tools make be causing errors in Yosemite so I am wanting to test this with another tool.

Goal:

Create a .pkg that will contain Firefox, Chrome, other software to installing during the imaging process


texts: Failing to connect to WiFi network with MacAuthEvent error

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I'm unable to connect to any WiFi network. When attempting to connect, before the popup prompting me to run network diagnostics, the console shows the following in the logs:

7/14/14 8:52:06.000 AM kernel[0]: ARPT: 1668.667864: MacAuthEvent en0   Auth result for: 00:1f:f3:c1:c1:5a Auth timed out
7/14/14 8:52:09.000 AM kernel[0]: ARPT: 1671.337424: directed SSID scan fail

I was able to connect to a network briefly after disabling Bluetooth, but the activity resumed shortly after.

The network card appears to be on:

    $ networksetup -getairportpower en0
      Wi-Fi Power (en0): On

and connecting with a USB ethernet adapter is fine, so I suspect the issue is limited to the wireless adapter.

This is occurring on a late 2013 13" MacBook Pro (2.4 GHz i5, 8 GB memory 1600 MHz DDR3) running 10.9.4.

I found a number of similar threads, with similar symptoms, however, the key difference was that the Auth result had succeeded, and the issues were occurring after succeeding and initiating the next phase of the connection. This is happening on ALL wireless networks, with other devices able to connect without issue.

Has anyone seen this before? If it's failing to pass this step, is there the possibility of a network-hardware issue?

UPDATE:

Was unable determine the source of the issue, but resetting PRAM and NVRAM seems to have fixed it. Apple suggested using a new network location, but this worked only intermittently.


texts: How to download public photostream album from icloud.com?

texts: My friend shared an album on icloud.com/photostream, by making it public and provided me its url. Now I can download individual photos in the album, but there are over 200 pics. Is there an option to download the whole album at once? I am using chrome on Macbook.


texts:
How can I disable or modify the screen capture feature of the Apple Watch?

Although it may one day be a useful feature for me to take a screen capture of my watch, the hardware realities of the Apple Watch make this an extremely annoying implementation. It is all too easy to unknowingly and accidentally depress both the side button and digital crown at the same time.

Yes, I've tried wearing the watch higher up my wrist, and several different bands. I don't want to switch the watch's orientation because it would be at the cost of making the crown much less accessible. When I wear the watch while working out or doing physical work, I end up with a bunch of unwanted images propagating to all sorts of cloud backups, etc. I've taken to using the Screenshots album on my iPhone to mass delete, but they're already clogging my bandwidth and aforementioned storage.


texts: How to delete a file from Time Machine backups in Big Sur?

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I'd like to delete a file from my Time Machine backups, but there seems to be no option to do so in the Big Sur version of Time Machine.
I go to the Time Machine menu and select "Enter Time Machine". Then I see the view with the stack of windows. I browse to a file and select it. Now I want to delete it so it doesn't exist and take up space in backups. There is no option to delete it - either the action menu in the toolbar, or the control-click context menu.
How do I delete a file from Time Machine backups? There used to be a way to do this.
(I'd take a screenshot, but the key shortcuts for screenshots don't work in Time Machine. Not sure if this is just a Big Sur thing or if that's always the case.)
Update:
I should mention I'm using APFS for my Time Machine volume. That seems to be relevant. Also, I contacted Apple support about deleting entire snapshots (slightly different goal than the one here in this question). They said you can't do it anymore. It seems like there's some bugs here, because I have a "Move to Trash" option if I control-click one of my backups. It seems to work initially but then the backup comes back.

I don't like losing this much control over my files. I may look for another backup solution.


texts: Why does the menubar hide when I'm in iTunes?

texts: Often when I'm using iTunes 10.4, the menubar will hide and show like the dock does when you set it that way. I don't know of any settings that allow for that to happen on the menubar. Is it a bug or a setting that I accidentaly changed?


texts: Removed first partition, how to resize second partition into the free space?

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Mac Mini running Sierra.

I have a 500GB internal drive, that was partitioned into two volumes because at one point I wanted to test upgrading from Mavericks to Sierra but wanted to make sure everything worked before I would commit to it.  Everything has been working for a long time now so I'd like to remove the "old" system and reclaim that space.

My Diskutil List showed both drives and their corresponding Recovery HD partitions.  I did a diskutil erasevolume on both the old system volume, and the old recovery HD.  They are now gone, and all that's left is my Sierra volume and its recovery HD.  But now I can't get the Mac to allow me to reclaim the old partition's space.

Here is my current diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            249.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *8.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS TM iMac                 8.0 TB     disk2s2

I've tried diskutil resizevolume but every time I do I just get The new size must be different than the existing size despite specifying a different (larger) target size.

Additionally, in Disk Utility I cannot create a new additional partition anymore, as DU seems to think the entire available space is now only the 250GB of my Sierra partition.  Creating a new partition only eats into my 250GB partition's space.

How can I reclaim the missing half of my hard disk?


texts: Mail marked all my inbox items as read. How do I undo this?

texts:
I accidentally deleted all 47,000 e-mails in my inbox. Most were unread. Just after I did this, I issued the command to "undo Delete 47,000 emails". For the last hour the mail activity has been grinding away on my disk and the bar still shows "Copying messages, Moving 23250 messages…" I don't know why it's copying or moving messages since I did "undo" before it had a chance to do anything, but anyway, I noticed that it marked all my gmail items as "read" even though it did not do this to my other inboxes. Also in the console, I'm seeing a lot of messages show up like 3/27/15 5:55:34.620 PM Mail[5285]: open on /Users/me/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes/Deleted Messages (Gmail).mbox/EF46037D-AF1B-42A8-B540-A00F046DBD62/Data/0/7/2/1/Messages/1270000.emlx: No such file or directory.

How do I make it undo setting all my inbox items to read on gmail? Why did it do that? I'm on OS X 10.8.5


texts:
A very simple AppleScript like this:

tell application "System Events"
    keystroke "abc 123"
end tell

results in just “abc” being typed. Online resources suggest this should not be the case. Adding a delay between keystrokes didn't help.

What might be causing this or how can I determine what might be causing this?

Small side question: in AppleScript terminology, what is keystroke? A function, command, something else?


texts: Cannot boot. Diskutil list show two partitions with missing type and Name

texts:
My Mac cannot boot BigSur but can boot up bootcamp. Start up with recovery mode and run diskutil list, missing Macintosh HD and Recovery partition but saw two partitions without name and type. Only show the UUID.
Please help. Thank you.

Update1: Mac was boot up via Internet Recovery. Diskutil apfs doesn’t recognized. Not sure if Apple upload a old version of utilities tool. Please see the screenshot.

Update 2: Managed to boot up Internet recovery with the latest version as suggested using cmd+opt+r. Now it recognized show Macintosh HD with APFS container. Tried to verify Macintosh HD but failed. Please help.

Updates 3: Managed to mount disk2s5 for Macintosh HD


texts: Re-enable Mac media keys originally disabled via terminal

texts:
My Mac media keys are completely disabled. I originally disabled them far too long ago to remember how exactly I did it but I remember it was via the terminal that toggled a switch not available anywhere else.

To be more specific all of my function keys function properly without use of the fn keys and the media keys do nothing even with the fn keys.


texts: Which apps support the vga adapter for iPad 1?

texts:
iPad 2 supports full mirroring, which is great, but I have an iPad 1. How do I find out which apps support the vga adapter on iPad 1. I have failed to find a definitive answer.

For example maps, safari, google earth, photos.

I have seen references to video and itunes supporting it, but not fully.

Which apps have you used with the VGA adapter, and which features does it support?


texts: Enlarging or reducing desktop view and making paragraphs

texts:
I have a Facebook friend who is stating my posts appear huge to her. I use a pc and had thought she had one too. So with little known I told her how to make the text she was seeing smaller by using the Control and - keys. She said it didn't work.
She runs all her text together on Facebook so I asked her if she could put paragraph breaks in so I might be able to read her extreme long messages. I use Shift and Enter on my pc.

So how do I tell her how to do this on her Mac?


texts:
Is it possible to change OS X's USB filesystem mount behaviour to use the noasync flag to disable write caching?

The aim here is to allow USB devices to be safely removed without eject or hdiutil unmount, as opposed to

disable the disk was not ejected properly warning How do I disable this message: "the disk was not ejected properly"?
manually running mount every time https://superuser.com/questions/113019/is-it-possible-to-disable-write-caching-on-a-usb-mass-storage-device-on-mac-os-x


texts: Does anyone else often get blurry images when taking photos with iPhone 5S? I just feel they are more frequent than on my iPhone 4 and was wondering if anyone else experienced the same.


texts: Mission Control occasionally freezing computer and garbling screen content

texts:
Every so often (usually when I have a ton of windows open) I trigger mission control and I get this:

I have to do a complete restart of the computer in order to resume.  This happened to me on both OS X Lion and now OS X Mountain Lion.

I'm running a Mac Book Pro 2.53 Intel Core i5 (with 8 GB of memory).  It's plugged into a 27" Cinema display via the display port. To my memory this has only happened when plugged into the Cinema display.

I'd really like this to stop happening, so I'd love to know if there is a fix for this.


texts: How to copy all styles from one document to another when using Pages?

texts: I have multiple Pages documents with similar structure and using the same styles (Title, Body, ...). Is it possible to update the styles in one document, and then apply all the updated styles to another document? The only way I can think of is copying and pasting/updating each style individually.


texts:
Is there a Safari extension that can better display code in reader view?

Original on webpage:

In reader view:

Any way to better format code in reader view?


texts: How to use different accounts (of different countries) for iTunes and iBookstore on iPhone or iPad?

texts:
Simply stated, it is I bought quite a bit of Music and Movies from my native country (be it Hong Kong, France, Italy, etc).  However, the iBookstore for that country has very few books on the iBookstore.

Therefore, I need to listen to music and watch movies for iTunes store for one country (Hong Kong), and be able to read books on iBooks for the content of USA iTunes store, on the same iPhone or same iPad.

Is it possible?

(some details: it looks like if I keep on switching countries using one iTunes account and buy content from USA store and Hong Kong store, then all content can be available under one iTunes account and therefore on one iPhone.  However, since I don't have a credit card with a Hong Kong billing address, I can only buy HK gift cards and buy HK content that way, and I can't switch to USA store and buy things if there is remaining HK$520 in the account.  I have to use it all up first.  So I am sort of forced to use 2 iTunes accounts, one for the HK store, and one for the USA store.)


texts:
I have installed Yosemite OS on my Mac and I encounter the following problem. Whenever I clear Safari history, then I always have to login to iTunes if I want to use the online services (e.g. internet music or online radio).

Is this a bug or that's the way it works?


texts: Is it normal that there is an MS-DOS FAT32 partition in the hd not made by me?

texts:
Digging on my slowness my EtreCheck report.. report a 'sound me strange' MS-DOS partition

Disk Information: ⓘ
    APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662 disk0: (1 TB) (Rotational)
    [Show SMART report]
        EFI (disk0s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) <not mounted>  [EFI]: 210 MB
        MacintoshHD (disk0s2 - Journaled HFS+) /  [Startup]: 999.35 GB (878.07 GB free)
        Recovery HD (disk0s3 - Journaled HFS+) <not mounted>  [Recovery]: 650 MB

It is possible to know, maybe via terminal, when it was created and or from which process?

It could be that it has to do with an attempt to install bootcamp done time ago was not successful but then I formatted the disk so it is strange


texts: How can I enter recovery mode (for Mac OS, on an iMac) remotely?

texts:
Our team administrates several Macs. To save costs (flights, etc.) in events where we have to remotely restore a system at our client location, we are trying to understand how to enter recovery mode without being physically present at the keyboard to enter recovery mode by pressing Cmd + R.

Can I pass a flag to sudo reboot or something similar, to initiate a reboot into recovery mode?

(All of the internet searches I've done have turned up "Press this series of keys on the keyboard" to enter various flavors of recovery.)


texts:
I tried to use the ln -s command to create a symbolic link to offload storage onto a separate volume and get the following error:

ln -s/Volumes/NONAME/POP-emailaccount@provider.net/ ~/Library/Mail/V2/POP-emailacount@provider.net
ln: illegal option -- /
usage: ln [-Ffhinsv] source_file [target_file]
       ln [-Ffhinsv] source_file ... target_dir
       link source_file target_file

Can't interpret what was illegal about what I did. Can anyone walk me through it.


texts: Calendar Mac/iPhone timezone support question

texts:
I am having trouble trying to understand Apple's Timezone Support features.

Taking the following scenario, can anyone explain to me what I can expect to happen with my calendar and alerts:

Timezone support is turned On and set to Central Time for iOS/iCloud.
iPhone > Settings > General > Date & Time > Set Automatically is On
Create an event on my iPhone for 6pm Eastern Time with a 1 Hour Before alert
Travel from Central Time to Eastern Time

What I expect to happen is that, while I am in Central Time, the event will be listed as 5pm, and then automatically change to 6pm when I travel to Eastern Time, alerting me at 5pm.

I am asking this because I have read a lot of articles which make it seem like turning on Timezone Support actually keeps your events listed at the Timezone for which support is set to (i.e. my 6pm Eastern Time event will always show up as 5pm not matter what timezone I travel to because my Timezone support is set to Central Time).

This is all very confusing and I have never fully understood Apple's design intentions with this feature. If anyone can explain to me what's going to happen with my calendar events I would really appreciate it.


texts: The messages app isn't on my Mac (Yosemite)

texts:
Recently, I've been wanting to send and receive texts on my MacBook air, just like I do on my pro, but when I spotlight 'messages,' nothing shows up except for java and json files.

Is there any way to download the messages app off of the app store (I've looked and haven't found it. Is it called something else there?)
How could I get the messages app on my computer?Thanks-A
Edit: I have checked to make sure my spotlight works properly, and looked through my applications folder. It is not present.


texts: Creating screenshots of iOS devices from OSX without Xcode

texts:
Is there a way to create screenshots of iOS devices from OSX without using Xcode? I am looking for a fast way to do that.

I know 2 methods:

Using Xcode
Taking a screenshot on the device and sharing it using message/mail whatever

but both these methods are cumbersome and slow. I want to be able to create those screenhots fast.

Any suggestions?


texts: mac trying to connect to airport server when i opened kontakt 6

texts: There was a problem with my MacBook pro 2019 16. I downloaded Kontakt 6 (vst for music), Kontakt 5 and several libraries for them. I tried to run it, but the libraries were on my airport extreme server. After that, I reinstalled all versions of Kontakt and transferred the libraries directly to the ssd of my Mac. But now, every time I open Kontakt 6, every 30 seconds I get the error "There was a problem connecting to the server" airport extreme. " The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again. " When trying to close Kontakt it freezes, a rainbow wheel appears and this error reappears a couple of times. With Kontakt 5, this problem is not. How do I clear this pop-up message?


texts: How long does a clean install of Lion take?

texts:
How long should I expect it to take to do a clean install of Lion on an already-formatted disk? I'm using a mid-2010 15" MacBook Pro with an i7 and a 5,400RPM 500GB hard drive.

(I ask because I think my hard drive is in bad condition, and the installation seems like it's taking too long.)


texts: What does setting Media Kind to Audiobook do?

texts: If I change the Media Kind option on a track to Audiobook, what does effects does that have on my iTunes library?  How does it change the presentation and functionality of the track?


texts:
I've got (I think) an late-2009 Mac mini. (It's the last mini before they removed the optical drive)

Recently it crashed, and when trying to reboot it, it hangs at the Apple logo.

When it first comes up, there is a progress bar at the bottom and at spinning "wait" icon. The progress bar goes away, but the wait icon remains indefinitely (I let it sit for 4 days).

I've inserted a USB stick with a Lion recovery partition installed on it, but when I press ⌘ + R after pressing the power button, I get the exact same results as above (i.e., it does not boot into the recovery partition, but instead shows the Apple logo, progress bar, and wait icon).

I know there should be a recovery partition on disk, but if that disk has failed, I'm hopeful that it would still launch the recovery partition off of the USB drive.

Am I missing something simple, or is this expected behaviour with a failed disk?


texts: How do I prevent FaceTime call notifications from exiting fullscreen apps on OS X?

texts: When I get a call through FaceTime, it switches away from a full screen app/video I'm using. I don't want to turn it off, because getting calls on the computer is useful, but I don't want it to automatically switch what I'm doing.


texts: Can't update my mail password on Macbook Air

texts:
I recently changed my Gmail password, and as expected, the mail app can't log in to that account anymore. It says "Login Failed" in the top right.

The problem is, I can't figure out how to update the password so it works again. When I go to "accounts" in "preferences", there's literally no password field. It lists Description, Alias, Email Address, Full Name, Incoming Mail Server, User Name, Outgoing Mail Server, TLS Certificate. That's it.

When I try to "add account" in the file menu, I type in my info and it of course says that account has already been added.

Is there any way to just wipe out the account and start over? Or is there some other way to update the password?

Edit: Added picture.


texts: Is / always the path of the system drive?

texts:
I need to know which drive is the System drive.

Is it safe to assume that / is always the system drive ? Or in some situation (for example booting from a FW drive) / is not the drive were the system is. thanks.


texts: I'm new to Mac and I want to know the last time I opened an app on my Mac and what the app was. Like for example if I opened Sublime Text at 2:04 pm how would I see that?


texts: Can a MacBook 12 inch (2017) run OSX Mavericks?

texts:
I have a newish MacBook from 2017, but I have an old backup with programs I need to run from an old MacBook Pro 2013 that was running Mavericks.
The app from my backup is only for 32bit and requires Java runtime 6.
Would my 12 inch MacBook 2017 run Mavericks? (So that I can boot that old program)


texts:
Windows users have the luxury of being able to load a flash drive with specially-modified "portable" applications, which run and keep all data contained on the flash drive so that moving them from computer to computer doesn't change the experience or modify the host computer at all. In the past I have gotten various apps from portableapps.com for this purpose.

Now that I'm a Mac owner, I wonder, is there an equivalent for Mac? At first thought I figured applications could just be copied from the Applications folder onto a drive, since they are self-contained; but I do know a little bit about how they actually store preferences in other directories and some even store things in the Library folder and stuff like that. So applications aren't truly natively portable, even if they require no installation.

Are there any portable Mac apps out there? Are there some recommended websites for these apps?


texts: I have a phone now that has more storage, how do I remove what I have stored in iCloud storage?  I don't need to continue paying monthly


texts:
I would like to add a box to my applescriptobjc application. I would like to add a box that displays the output of

    do shell script ""

so I think I would do something like

    set a too (do shell script "")

But how would I show "a" in a box on the User Interface?


texts: MacBook Air battery discharges overnight (April 2018)

texts:
My MacBook Air's battery sometimes discharges overnight. Not always, perhaps just 60% of the time. It is always on sleep (I just close the lid) and it is usually for 8-9 hours. I unplug it, close the lid and head to bed. In the morning, it is at either 87% (most times) or 98% (some times) or 100% (rarely). I could not discern any pattern.

Specifications:

2017 13" MacBook Air (Purchased early 2019)
macOS Mojave 10.14

What I tried so far:

TCP Keep Alive Setting

The issue is that I don't really know how to debug this.


texts: Docking station for Macbook Pro that lets you use the book + external monitor

texts: Does a docking station exist for MacBook Pros that let you dock it and keep the book open, so you can still use the keyboard, trackpad and monitor plus let you have an auxiliary monitor connected. I am debating ordering a Thinkpad with dock vs. a MacBook Pro but the user I am ordering it for loves her two monitors and was using a Win XP desktop. We are going to switch her to a mobile machine but the "docking" solution is very appealing and manually hooking up a second monitor all the time is not that appealing.


texts: Script to run Adobe Update Remote Manager as Launch Daemon at Boot without MDM

texts:
Scenario: I need to figure out how to run the /usr/local/bin/RemoteUpdateManager at DeepFreeze maintenance cycle. During this maintenance cycle, the computers will restart to the login screen and enter a thaw and locked mode for a period of time. As mentioned we do not have a MDM yet, so I created a launch daemon which to my understanding should run the script at boot without requiring any input or to login.

Update.sh

#!/bin/bash
rum=/usr/local/bin/RemoteUpdateManager

if [[ -f $rum ]]; then
echo "Starting Adobe RemoteUpdateManger..."
sudo $rum --action=list #Listing the updates for now, but will install later
else
echo "Adobe RemoteUpdateManager not found."
fi

Based off Adobe's RUM guide, link, you have to use sudo for RemoteUpdateManager

com.test.schedule.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>EnviromentVariables</key>
<dict>
    <key>PATH</key>
    <string>/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:</string>
</dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.test.updateschedule</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
    <string>sudo</string>
    <string>sh</string>
    <string>/Library/Scripts/Updates.sh</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>StandardErrorPath</key>
<string>/var/log/EsoUpdateError.log</string>
<key>StandardOutPath</key>
<string>/var/log/EsoUpdate.log</string>

Steps Taken

Copy update.sh to /Library/Scripts/ and the .plist to /Library/LaunchDaemons/
sudo chown root:wheel .sh
sudo chown root:wheel .plist.
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/.plist
The moment I load the .plist, it creates two logs at /var/log/. The standardoutpath log lists all the updates which is exactly what I want.

Issue

After restarting the computer to see if results stick, I notice that the results cannot be replicated. Instead I receive the following in StandardErrorPath log:

  RemoteUpdateManager exiting with Return Code (1)

Based of the RUM guide, Return Code (1) is: "Generic error, for example an internal error. For example, this might be the case where Adobe Application Manager installation is corrupted or network is not present. In this case, typically, the process of downloading or installing updates cannot be started at all."

I went as far to apply chmod 777 and chown root:wheel to both the .sh and .plist, along with `/usr/local/bin/RemoteUpdateManager'. Tried without sudo in the .plist and .sh.


texts:
I thought with iOS 7 the theme was supposed to be based on the colour of the device. If this is the case why does my black iPad have the white theme.

If this is not the case how do I change it to a black theme?


texts:
Sometimes when opening up a .dmg, the application is just sitting there itself, with no handy alias to /Applications. To copy it over, I need to open a new Finder window, switch to /Applications, and then drag and drop the app in.

Is there an easier way? I would love it if there was a keyboard shortcut that would copy the selected app into /Applications. How can I make this work?


texts:
Ive just got a brand new iMac and have purchased a game (BioShock Infinite) from the Mac App Store.

For some reason the download failed halfway through so I tried again from the Purchases page of the app store. However it fails again immediately.

After trying that a few times I removed it from the Purchases page and then searched for it again, back in the app store. I clicked Buy again and it advised me that it was already purchased and would download again. But the same error occurs.

Does anyone know how to fix this?


texts: How to completely turn off spell check in macOS Big Sur

texts:
Spelling autocorrect and checking seem to have changed in Big Sur.
I have disabled Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Check spelling while typing, I unchecked System Preferences > Keyboard > Text > Correct spelling automatically, and yet I still get text underlined, for example, in Messages:

Am I missing another setting somewhere or is this a bug? In previous versions I could disable this easily.
Background: I use multiple languages and although in theory macOS can tell the difference, spell-check/autocorrect is not working too well with weird languages like Hungarian.


texts: Import multiple-pages from a PDF as separate slides in Keynote

texts: I have a PDF with slides in it from someone else and I want to import all the separate pages of the PDF as separate slides in Keynote. The best answer I can find is this one on apple support, but it suggests splitting the PDF into separate 1-page files to drag them into Keynote individually and I'm sure there must be an easier way.


texts: Quicktime recording: help, I did 1/2 of an interview with my headphones on, interviewee can barely be heard :(

texts:
I did a horrible newbie mistake.
Recorded about half of a really cool interview with my headphones on, without realising it. I can hear my voice, coffee shop noise, and very very light sounds from the interviewee. Is there a way I could clean the noise to only get the interviewee? So sad.


texts: How to regularly and incrementally backup photo streams?

texts:
I have a bunch of photo streams that I share with my wife. I am already using iCloud photos but we would like to backup certain streams regularly to some external media, like SD-cards or hard disks.

Importing all pictures in my photos app and then copying them to the external media is a bit tedious, especially when I am trying to find out which new pictures were added since my last backup.

Are there any tricks, tools or apps that can help me with this task?


texts: Open remote session (not screen sharing)

texts:
I have a mac mini that I'd like to use from my MacBook Air. So far, the only thing I have been able to do is setup the built-in Apple's Screen Sharing, which I have found really unreliable and slow.

I was hoping to find an alternative similar to what Microsoft Remote Desktop provides, i.e. not a screen sharing service via VNC, but a remote session login, agnostic of the mac mini's display and current session(s) running.

Once again, I'm not looking for setting up screen sharing. My mini does not even have a display.

Edit: I also want to be able to use the UI, not just the command line, so ssh is not an option in this case.


texts: Print current keyboard layout from command line

texts:
How can I print the current keyboard layout/type for an external keyboard via the command line?
i.e. Output whether current keyboard is ANSI, JIS etc.

I am having keyboard issues on sleep/awake, and want to check what is the current assumed keyboard layout/type for each keyboard device.


texts: Cannot add permissions to a file share in File Sharing Preferences

texts:
I have a freshly built instance of OSX 10.9.4 running on a Late 2009 Mac Mini with two serially connected firewire Drobos.

I can add both of these external drives to the Shared Folders list of the "File Sharing" preferences list, but I can only add and modify the users and their permissions for one of the two shared drives.

If I click the plus icon on the share that doesn't have any users or permissions, I can select a user, but nothing appears in the "Users" panel. Any other type of folder works except the second Drobo device.

Furthermore, the second drive appears to be sharing more or less in the default way, with an authenticated user having full read and write access and an unauthenticated user having read only access.

Does anyone know how I might go about troubleshooting this issue? It seems strange that it would occur on a fresh OSX build with only one application installed (VLC).


texts:
Is there a way (preferably stable —doesn't matter if it's difficult to configure— but you forget about it once done) to make Safari displaying images centered?

I mean, if you are viewing an image www.blah.blah/blah.png (or .jpeg, or .svg, or any image), Safari aligns it at the left top corner. I would like it to be centered on the screen. Is that possible?


texts:
I cannot sync contacts from my iPhone to my Gmail account. I have a standard Google account setup in my Mail, Contacts, Calendars settings (Exchange is not available to me). Also, my Gmail is set as my default account.

Note, my contacts are synced from Gmail to my iPhone, but not in reverse; meaning, any contact I add on my phone never makes in into my Gmail contacts. I'd like to not have to do this manually or through iTunes.


texts:
When clicked on IPv4 address in terminal window, it gets selected as a whole, not a single octet. The same action does not work for IPv6 adress, it does not get selected.
I assume there is some setting for IPv4, in terminal settings. I could not figure it out, though.
Can I make click selection for IPv6 to work?


texts: Inspect an unreadable USB flash drive for useful data

texts:
I have an old USB flash drive. macOS says it is unreadable and I have to initialize it, but I would like to inspect it for useful data before formatting. Disk Utility shows it has no SMART status:

How can I scan it for useful data with the Terminal or with a GUI data recovery application?


texts:
I have multiple macs accessing same data on a common disk (a time-capsule shared disk). The problem is that one of those macs couldn't be upgraded do Mavericks (it's running Lion).

Is there any app that I could install on a non-Mavericks mac to use it's tag system?
In another way: Is it possible to "read" Mavericks tags from a lion mac using any kind of software?

UPDATE: Originally I mentioned Mountain Lion, but in fact, my older Mac is running 10.7.5 (Lion).

UPDATE(2): Support at Iconic software did mentioned that their tagging software (Leap - the paid version - not Taggit, the free one) is now compatible with Mavericks and that it will try to convert native tags to their format of tagging. Since this software (Iconic Leap) is compatible with OS 10.7+ and above, it would be a tool for sharing tags between OSes versions. Will try this out and post back the result for future reference.


texts:
My friend gave me a macbook air to try to fix it. I'm pretty good with any Windows machine and the common troubleshooting steps. Like safe mode, malware scanners, startup applications and stuff. But I'm not really sure where to start on this macbook air. It doesn't have the dock on the bottom. Hitting shutdown took like a minute for the prompt to come up. So, it's behaving really slow. And I'm sure there's other things, but what should I do to start troubleshooting?

Also, I've noticed the screen go  black for a split second every like 5-10 minutes.


texts: How to list my programs in my User Applications folder?

texts:
Somehow (a long time ago) I deleted the contents of the Applications folder under my username (User/Applications). However, when I typed "Applications" into Spotlight, it gave me a folder called Applications with all my Adobe products, MAMP and other software in it.

So what I did was "select all" on those applications and dragged them to the empty Applications folder under my username. It's taking a long time to copy and I don't think I really wanted to duplicate the data so I hit cancel.

How can I:

Reverse what I did (if I did indeed duplicate all the data)
Get those applications LISTED in the right folder without duplicating the data


texts: How can I cast a video file that has been downloaded onto an iPad to a chromecast

texts:
I have sent several video files to my mom, who has downloaded them onto her iPad.  She has the video files saved on her iPad into a directory called "my files".  She recently bought a chromecast so that she can play these files on her TV, however all the apps she has tried only allow her to select files from the camera roll, and not the video files she has downloaded.

Is there an app that will allow her to cast video files from locations other than the camera roll?
If not, is there a way to move the downloaded files into the camera roll?

She has tried an app that mirrors her screen to the TV but the quality is really bad, and the differences in aspect ratio make it so that you can't go fullscreen.


texts:
I am used to of the old private browsing mode in Safari, where you can keep a login session between tabs. But since this new Safari came with Yosemite, the tabs maintain their own sessions.

Is there any way I can keep the login session between safari private tabs till the private window closes, just like how Google Chrome does?


texts:
How would I configure mac's to open a browser to a certain website on login for all users? I work in a lab we need to distribute a survey.

I'm looking for a possible terminal command to configure this.


texts: How do I remove or disable the Photos app in El Capitan?

texts:
When I try to drag Photos.app or certain other bundled system apps to the trash in El Capitan, I get the error

  “Photos.app” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by OS X.

The solution in Yosemite would be simply to use

$ sudo rm -Rf Photos.app

but this method is blocked in El Capitan.  You instead get

  Operation not permitted

I tried to change permissions with

$ chflags -R nouchg Photos.app

to no avail.

There must be a way around this!


texts: How to upgrade to iOS 5.1.1 on first generation iPad

texts:
i have just had this iPad passed down to me. I'm not that familiar yet, I'm trying to download some games, some need iOS 6+ that's fine, but some it tell me I need 5.1.1? I'm probably being daft but I thought that's what I'm on? I'm 1st generation, no frills iPad and am used for web browsing and music/music writing mainly. I have completed the games it had on it already and would like new ones, free new ones lol!
   Can you help me please, I've been scanning the web but no joy!
                   Thankyou x


texts:
I have the following plist file in my User/Library/LaunchAgents folder. It presses the "g" key every 60 seconds.

My question is, how can I change this to press the "g" key every 5 seconds?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/usr/bin/osascript</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>osascript</string>
        <string>-e</string>
        <string>tell application "System Events" to keystroke "g"</string>
    </array>
    <key>ServiceDescription</key>
    <string>Auto Keypress</string>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <dict>
        <key>Second</key>
        <integer>0</integer>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>


texts: How to fix delayed typing on certain websites?

texts:
When I am in Safari, typing an email or another form that has typing the resulting speed of text entry is mind numbingly slow!

I don't know what terms to search to identify the problem.

Why would it only be in an email?


texts: Multiple Bluetooth speakers simultaneously

texts: I would like to pair two sticky dude Bluetooth speakers, at one time with my iPhone. With two of them at once it would be like stereo sound. Is there an app or something maybe?


texts: How do you communicate to a Modbus device within an iPhone application?

texts: I would like to be able to develop an iPhone application that can communicate with Modbus devices, but I'm not sure how to proceed. Has anyone had experience with this or are there existing libraries out there for this purpose?


texts: Can't format SD Card after OS X Lion update to 10.7.4

texts:
Today I tried to format my SD cards with no success. The only thing different that I did was updating to 10.7.4 this weekend. What can I do to re-enable this function?

The can't format part means I can't format to any filesystem. It shows "read only". The erase format is not enabled.

Another user here has confirmed the same problem. The SD cards in question format fine in a camera but I can't write to it when I plug it into MacBook Pro. This started to happen only after update to 10.7.4. The problems seems to stem from (or correlate with) Disk Utility greying out all options apart from 'verify disk'.

Inserting SD card to SD -> USB dongle works just fine, so it's only SD card slot which seems to have assigned 'read only' status.

It's weird it started to work fine for a while and again I can't write to or format the SD cards.

I've formated a SD card with both exFAT and FAT32 and tried to use it on my laptop with Linux and guess what happened? It was read only even in another computer, but I've formated it again using Linux utility and everything is fine.
But the SD saga continues on OS X Lion, as well as Mountain Lion and Mavericks.

It is annoying buying an Apple product and have this kind of headache, and the worst is that I don't have the possibility of walking in an Apple Store and ask a genius to solve it for me.


texts: Any way to stop creating 'TV' folder in ~/Movies on macOS Catalina

texts:
Since macOS Catalina, I have a default 'TV' (Apple TV) app installed on my Mac.

It regularly creates an 'TV' folder inside ~/Movies with a file 'TV Libary' and an empty folder 'Media'.

I like to keep my filesystem clean, so I want to get rid of this 'TV' folder. However, when I manually delete the folder it comes back after some time.

Is there any way to stop the automatical creation of the ~/Movies/TV folder?


texts: How to take one touch screenshot on Macbook Pro with Touchbar?

texts:
Whenever I touch the screenshot button on the touchbar, it asks sets the "Window" option by default and at a minimum I have to click the mouse to take the screenshot or tap on "Window" again.

How do I tweak the settings such that tapping the Camera button simply takes the screenshot without prompting for any other actions?


texts: Syncing my iPhone with iTunes restores music I previously deleted from the device

texts:
One of the new features in iOS 5 is the ability to delete music in the Music app directly on the device, by swiping to delete like you do in Mail. This is great for me because my iPhone is generally pretty full, so as I add new music/apps/podcasts, I can go back through and delete stuff I no longer listen to in order to free up space.

However - when I sync my iPhone with iTunes, it copies everything I deleted right back! It must see that I have music on the computer that I've told it to sync, recognizes that those files aren't on the device, and copies them back over.

Is it me, or is this a bug? What would be the purpose of being able to delete files directly from the device if they get copied back over every time you sync?


texts:
For two days my Mac has been "dead"; the hard drive crashed, so I reformatted (twice). I wanted to reinstall Mavericks via Recovery, but at the end of the process it shows nearly 1 million minutes remaining and the process stops. I thought it was the hard drive that was dead but the Windows (BootCamp) part works very well.

I wanted to make a bootable USB of it (Using MacBook Air which is running OS X Mavericks GM), but when I tried to run the command for copying the files from .app to USB I got the following error:

Erasing Disk:
0%... 10%...
Error erasing disk error number (-69888, 0)
A error occurred erasing the disk.


texts: Set the default order and width of colums in the list view for all the folders in Finder

texts:
I can set the order and width of columns in the folder that's currently front in the screen as default view of that particular folder, but how can I set it as the default view of all the folders? I'd like the columns to always sit in the Name, Date Added, Date Modified, Size, Kind, Date Last Opened, Date Created order, and the width of column for anything other than names to be narrow which ever the folder I'm looking at.

OS X Mountain Lion


texts: What is the name of the process that does the iPhone backup in the background?

texts: I am having problems with the iPhone Backup process being hang. What is the name of that process and how can I kill it if I need to?


texts: Is Adobe illustrator GPU acceleration available on Mac mini with iris graphics card

texts: is Adobe illustrator GPU acceleration available with a Mac mini with i7, 16go ram and the  iris graphics card? Thanks.


texts: How to check which files are not in iTunes library, but are in iTunes folder?

texts:
This is a question from Wil Wheaton's google+, but I would like to get an answer too, stackexchange style.

Suppose you have all your music in a folder called /iTunes/Music. When you add files to iTunes, it puts them inside this folder, so it looks like this: /iTunes/Music/artist/album/track

Suppose you recently eliminated about 10GB of music from your iTunes library, but stupidly left those files inside /iTunes/Music. You have the entire thing backed up and pristine on an external drive, so you don't need to keep that music in that folder.

Here's the question: you want to write a script that will compare your iTunes library to the contents of /iTunes/Music, identify files that are in /iTunes/Music but not the iTunes Library file, and  move them to a new folder (probably in /tmp) so you can take a look, then delete them.

One possible solution  would be to write  a script which puts the output of ls (with appropriate flags) into a file, then diff that file with the contents of Library.xml, and move the resulting files into a new directory. Is it possible to do this?

Maybe there is already an Applescript which can be used to achieve this?


texts: Apple keeps resetting my Apple ID password?

texts:
For the last 4 weeks or so, I get the "This apple ID has been disabled for security reason... bla bla bla" notification at least two times per week. All my devices are up to date and have been updated to use the new password.

There are at least 5 people in my office that are experiencing the same problem. I have read the article @ http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2446 but it doesn't help me much.

How can I make them stop? I will run out of passwords very, very soon.


texts:
The beloved Solarized colour scheme seems to apply an italic face for comments, but when I am using it in vim in iTerm2, it does not.

So, everything including comments are displayed in Roman (normal) face.
Even if I select the Menlo font, which has an italic face I can see in iTerm2's preferences window, the comments are rendered as Roman.

Together with the fact that comments are in light gray, and normal text in (not very bright) white, comments become rather difficult to distinguish from normal text.

To me this is a flaw in the otherwise great color scheme. I did some searching but the advice is old and do not solve the problem. I'm using OS X 10.6 Sierra on a MacBook Air.


texts: Hazy lines around dock and windows in Mojave

texts: I’m currently experiencing this issue (refer to picture  above). It started after I upgraded to Mojave and it appears on both dark and light mode


texts:
Is it possible to send an arrow key in iTerm2? I've been able to send almost any other character, by using either an escape character, such as \<C-a> or entering in the character directly, such as ‰, but I haven't been able to figure out (or find on Google) how to send one of the arrow keys. For example, I would like to configure pressing

⌘↑

to send a tmux command of:

ctrla↑ (ctrl-a being by prefix)

In other words, pressing cmd-up would navigate to the pane above the current one. How would I do this in iTerm2? That is, what "action" should I select (send hex codes? send text? send text with vim escape chars?) and text/code should I send?


texts: Backing up Adobe CS6, Microsoft office, Camtasia on Time Machine - will they completely restore?

texts: I have a hard drive problem. If I use Time machine to make regular backups, will Adobe CS6, Microsoft office, Camtasia and other installed programmes completely retore on a new hard drive without any complications? I have been told various things that seem to conflict.


texts:
My Macbook Pro 15" Yosemite (model 3 years ago) has a problem with sleep mode.
I even formatted the disk and reinstalled OS X.

When I click the Apple icon and choose sleep from the menu, the mouse can move around (within 3-5 pixels) but the display is not turning off.

I wait for perhaps 30 seconds, the display then goes off but the Macbook does not sleep properly. When hitting the power button, the screen shows the Apple icon with the loading bar at 80%.

The computer then freezes, I cannot do anything except force shutdown.

This occurs even when no applications are opened in that session. I have no idea how to debug or troubleshoot this problem.

Please advise.


texts: Videos not autoplaying in Safari in 10.12

texts: In website sites like Twitter & Facebook, I used to (can’t remember when things “broke”) have videos autoplay, but they no longer do.  (Videos do autoplay correctly in Firefox.)  I can get them to play after I double-click them, which maximizes them to full-screen.  If I minimize back to a std inline video, they continue playing “correctly.”  I have some extensions, but disabling them doesn’t help.  Also, disabling all plugins doesn’t help.  Suggestions to fix?


texts: How can I delete old messages on my iPhone to free up space (NOT the whole message thread)

texts:
My iPhone is getting real low on space. I know the Messages app is taking up lots of space and I want to clear some of it.

I looked and it only allows me to delete EVERYTHING from a message thread.

How can I just delete just some of the messages, not all messages?

Surely I can delete messages that are really old or large messages with photos or videos, but I checked everywhere and can’t find how to do this.

I’ve also tried clicking on the info symbol at the top of a message thread. This lets me view images and attachments, but I can’t delete any of them. I tried tapping on them or 3d touching them, but there's no delete option anywhere.

I'm using an iPhone 6s running the latest iOS 11.


texts:
How does AirDrop work? I thought it is just Bluetooth, but I am starting to doubt that now.

Whenever I turn AirDrop on, my Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are automatically turned on. If I turn the Wi-Fi off, and try to AirDrop, sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't. It never works if I turn the Bluetooth off instead.

So... Why does this happen? How does AirDrop work?


texts:
Years ago, you could get away with running brew as root just by chowning brew to root, but they removed that feature. So in Homebrew 1.1.6, I used to edit /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.sh to remove the root check (the one that said it's "extremely dangerous") so I could run brew as root.

The newer version of Homebrew still works with that but keeps reverting the brew.sh file back every time after I run brew, even if I chmod 500 it. I could write a script to change it then run brew automatically, but I'm not sure if this will always work and don't want to take chances. Has anyone found a different method to run Homebrew as root?


texts: Thunderbird and other apps in Maverics' notice panel

texts:
Is there a way to tell which app is using my notices panel from Maverics (opened by fingers slide from right side to left)?

I am particularly intrested in displaying Thunderbird's new message indicators there, but it boils down to actually setting notices for anything I want there.

Any manual or sources would be helpful.


texts:
After upgrading to the newest El Capitan from 10.10. to 10.11.1 - I guess - the normally invisible EFI partition appears on the desktop as a regular volume on different machines, if I choose to show the volumes in the finder preferences.

When I start "First Aid" with Disk utility the EFI partition get ejected, but on the next start they will appear again. I can boot in Recovery Mode and El Capitan seems to work fine (as fine as it can).

But how can I get OS X not to autoload the EFI partition and hide it again?

  Admins Mac Pro:~ admin$ diskutil info /Volumes/EFI
  Device Identifier:        disk0s1
  Device Node:              /dev/disk0s1
  Whole:                    No
  Part of Whole:            disk0
  Device / Media Name:      EFI System Partition
  Volume Name:              EFI
  Mounted:                  Yes
  Mount Point:              /Volumes/EFI
  File System Personality:  MS-DOS FAT32
  Type (Bundle):            msdos
  Name (User Visible):      MS-DOS (FAT32)
  Partition Type:           EFI
  OS Can Be Installed:      No
  Media Type:               Generic
  Protocol:                 SATA
  SMART Status:             Verified
  Volume UUID:              0E239BC6-F960-3107-89CF-1C97F78BB46B
  Disk / Partition UUID:    BF3A02F5-1B7F-4F5C-9E27-2C3378181F53
  Total Size:               209.7 MB (209715200 Bytes) (exactly 409600 512-Byte-Units)
  Volume Free Space:        181.5 MB (181542912 Bytes) (exactly 354576 512-Byte-Units)
  Device Block Size:        512 Bytes
  Allocation Block Size:    512 Bytes
  Read-Only Media:          No
  Read-Only Volume:         No
  Device Location:          Internal
  Removable Media:          No
  Solid State:              No


texts: Zoom in or out with trackpad stops working

texts:
I am using OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G1217) on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015).

Sometimes when reading PDF's I notice I suddenly can not use the trackpad zoom feature anymore. It is not related to PDF's in general, as both in the apps Skim, Preview and Scapple it has stopped working.

If it had stopped working, multi-touch features such as Mission Control still work, suggesting the problem is not hardware.

When I disable and then re-enable the 'Zoom in or out' feature (cf. figure), it suddenly works again. How can I troubleshoot this problem?


texts: What is the exact behavior of Catalina verifying app?

texts:
By 'verifying' I mean either

an explicit popup of 'Verifying'
or app launch stuck with XProtectService comsuming CPU in background

What I know

An app on local drive with com.apple.quarantine xattr will be verified on the first start, or after something changed in the app.

However I found some app on without the xattr will still be verified, especially app copied from (or directly run on) an external/network drive.

What is the exact behavior?
Anyway to avoid this (without fully disable SIP)?


texts: Unable to resize windows on split full screen in MacOS Mojave when using external monitor

texts:
I'm running MacOS Mojave on a 13" Macbook pro with a 4K external monitor (scaled to 2560 x 1440).

When running two apps in split full screen mode it won't let me reposition the "split" which controls the share of the screen of the two apps by grabbing the vertical bar.

This behaviour can be seem in this screen recording.

Any ideas on how to solve this? Or is this just a bug that needs fixing?


texts: How to turn on spell checking in iOS 8.4

texts:
I am using an iPad (4th gen) with iOS 8.4.  I would like to have it support spell checking. By spell checking I mean that misspelled words should be underlined in red (or otherwise distinctlively marked) when they appear in editable text fields.

My General>>Keyboard settings are shown here

The reason is that when I type I make plentitudenous spelling mistakes.

For example.  I am entering this question into a <textarea> element on a web page. After I type the "word" plentitudenous, it should be indicated that it it misspelled.  And it should remain so indicated after I have changed it to plenitudenous. Only after I change it to plenitudinous, should the marking go away.

Similarly, if I runtwo words together while composing an email in the Mail app, it should be so indicated.

I have a  iOS 8.4 (12H143) Ipad model A1458.  I sometimes use a logitech bluetooth keyboard.


texts: How do I prevent prompts to update to iOS 10

texts: I've got an iPhone 6 that I would like to keep running iOS9 for the purpose of testing iOS applications.  Is there any way to prevent the prompts to install iOS10?


texts: Apple Music checked as disabled and grayed out in iTunes

texts: In iTunes' preferences pane for Restrictions, Apple Music is grayed out and checked as disabled. Any idea how to enable this? The lock is not engaged at the bottom.


texts: How to add files to the Spotlight index?

texts:
For some reason, find returns more results than mdfind.
How can I make sure these files are added to the Spotlight index?
$ find ~/Library -iname "*org.virtualbox.app.VirtualBox*" -prune 2>&1 | grep -av "Permission denied"
/Users/sunknudsen/Library/Saved Application State/org.virtualbox.app.VirtualBox.savedState
/Users/sunknudsen/Library/Saved Application State/org.virtualbox.app.VirtualBoxVM.savedState
/Users/sunknudsen/Library/Preferences/org.virtualbox.app.VirtualBoxVM.plist
/Users/sunknudsen/Library/Preferences/org.virtualbox.app.VirtualBox.plist

$ mdfind -onlyin ~/Library 'kMDItemFSName == "*org.virtualbox.app.VirtualBox*"'


texts:
The keyboard of my Macbook Pro mid-2010 has stopped illuminating in low light.

I checked my System Preferences of my Mountain Lion and there is no "Automatically illuminate keyboard in low light" at all. Also F5 and F6 don't work either while F3 or something like that works perfectly.

I googled this question, and everywhere writes that there is a special point in system pref, which i dont have. screen Any suggestions on how to identify/fix the problem are greatly appreciated


texts: How to configure a MacBook so that it keeps a static IP-address when disconnected?

texts:
I have a client/server software that uses IP to communicate. It happens that both client and server is located at the same MacBook, and when I travel I disconnect it from the IP network, making it loose the static IP-address obtained by the network card from the IP network. This sets a stop for the IP connection between the client and server.

Both the client and server software is configured to use a specific IP-address and reconfiguration of this address within this software is not possible.
This makes it impossible to change the client/server IP-address configuration to localhost/127.0.0.1, as would be the most obvious solution.

Are there any other way that I can configure my MacBook (Yosemite) network configuration so that it keeps using the static IP-address even if I disconnect it from the IP network?


texts: Why is my Mountain Lion download freezing at 53.25 MB?

texts:
I have been trying for about a day now, and no matter how many times I pause/resume or cancel and retry, my download of Mountain Lion is freezing at 53.25MB.

Why is it freezing and how can I resolve this issue?


texts: iOS Spotlight search for, then edit a contact

texts:
I can't for the life of me understand how, in iOS 10.3.1, I do what I've done many times before iOS 9/10, namely:

Spotlight search for a contact
Then edit that contact

This is what I see:

Best search hit

Cancel, Notes, Share Contact

I.e. no way to edit nor to view it in the contacts app. I don't have 3D Touch.


texts: How to fix  missing icons and labels in System Preferences -> Spotlight?

texts:
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro and I started noticing a weird bug in my Spotlight system preferences.

It looks like every time I open preferences -> Spotlight an assortment of icons and labels are missing from the Search Results tab.

I noticed the following log entries along with this


texts: Can you connect iPhone/iPad to Apple TV without WiFi network in place

texts:
I would like to make a presentation from an iPhone or iPad using an AppleTV and projector. Is it possible to do so without either a WiFi or LAN network in place (like in a bad hotel)? Is the AppleTV able to act as a WiFi/Bluetooth access point so that iDevice can connect to it and show the presentation? Or is that not possible?

Are there any workarounds for this, or do I have to bring wireless router with me as well?


texts:
I'm experiencing some frustrating keyboard issues on my new 2014 Macbook Air (OS X 10.9.3)

When using the laptop keyboard, the F1–12 keys take the behavior of "function" as opposed to the "media key" behavior they should have by default (brightness, volume, etc).

I've unchecked the "Use all F1-F12 keys as standard function keys" setting in System Preferences. I've also tried a few things in the terminal:

defaults write "Apple Global Domain" "com.apple.keyboard.fnState" "0" (referenced here)
defaults write -g com.apple.keyboard.fnState -bool true (referenced here)

I restart after each of these and still nothing.

-

A couple things to note:

When I connect an Apple Keyboard, the keys on the Apple Keyboard work as normal.
I recently connected a Kinesis Freestyle 2 keyboard to the laptop. I have a feeling this may have caused the issue, possibly because it was a Windows version of the keyboard as opposed to a Mac version (Oh Windows, always causing trouble...)

Any ideas? Thanks.


texts: How do I view my iCloud Photo Stream online?

texts: I set up iCloud when I installed iOS 5 on my iPhone and was excited about Photo Stream. I logged into icloud.com and found there are no photos. What gives? I was hoping that this would end the need to selectively pull photos off my phone, then upload, then share. But it looks like you can only sync between iOS devices and Lion (which I don't have). Is there a web interface or some other way to see these photos?


texts:
I have MBA 128 GB, and my local Mail cache is too large to be stored on the HD.
Now, I have the external 16 GB SD card plugged in via compact Nifty adapter.
It's always mounted.

How can I set up the Mail app to store its data on that SD?


texts: Cannot resize Macintosh HD using (supposedly) available free space

texts:
I partitioned my hard drive in order to install Ubuntu, but I now would like to reclaim that space and add it back to my Macintosh HD. I managed to delete the Linux Filesystem and Swap, and Disk Utility shows that I have some free space:

However, I cannot resize my Macintosh HD (which is the 200 GB slice) using the simple method of clicking and dragging in Disk Utility. The output of some common disk usage tools is below:

I have tried repairing all disks and the problem persists. I am running OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.5. Any help is greatly appreciated.


texts: How should I recover my NTFS partition that I have accidentally deleted on my Mac

texts:
I have a 2 TB external HDD that was divided in 2 partition:

First partition: 280 GB
Second partition: 1720 GB

I accidentally delete the second partition.

Here are several steps that I already did;

result of diskutil list

~ diskutil list
  /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
     #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
     0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0
     1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
     2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         249.8 GB   disk0s2

  /dev/disk1 (synthesized):
     #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
     0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +249.8 GB   disk1
                                   Physical Store disk0s2
     1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            119.9 GB   disk1s1
     2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 20.5 MB    disk1s2
     3:                APFS Volume Recovery                503.9 MB   disk1s3
     4:                APFS Volume VM                      5.4 GB     disk1s4

  /dev/disk2 (external, physical):
     #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
     0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
     1:               Windows_NTFS HDD1                    228.4 GB   disk2s1

Here is the result of sudo fdisk /dev/disk2

~ sudo fdisk /dev/disk2
    Disk: /dev/disk2    geometry: 243201/255/63 [3907029167 sectors]
    Signature: 0xAA55
             Starting       Ending
     #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    *1: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    206848 -  446126158] HPFS/QNX/AUX
     2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
     3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
     4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

EDIT:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/disk2 bs=512 skip=446333006 count=150000000 | grep -o -a -b "BOOTMGR"

71010552671:BOOTMGR
71010552692:BOOTMGR
150000000+0 records in
150000000+0 records out
76800000000 bytes transferred in 11355.441546 secs (6763277 bytes/sec)


texts: Shortcut to go to next table cell in table in Pages

texts:
In Numbers, it is possible to go to the cell below the cell you are currently in by pressing Enter.

In a table in Pages, it seems as though pressing Enter simply makes a new line in the table cell. Additionally, pressing the arrow keys only move the text insertion cursor and pressing Escape. Pressing ⌘ Enter does deselect the current cell and keep the entered text in it, but it doesn't automatically go to the next cell.

Is there a way (like there is in Numbers) to go to the next cell in a table in Pages?


texts: iPhone 4S: how to set up multiple phone numbers under text messages send/receive option

texts:
Under

settings
text messages
send/receive

I had 3 phone numbers listed - mine and my children.

I am not sure how this setup occurred although they have iPhones that use and are associated with my email and Apple ID.

Recently my Apple ID was changed and I lost this functionality.  I'm wondering how to get these phone numbers back.  I am interested in monitoring my children's texts using this feature.


texts:
I have MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) with macOS High Sierra installed. I plugged it in to external display: LG 24UD58 24" via DisplayPort through USB-C

For unknown reason Macbook works at 30Hz instead of 60Hz. I managed to achieve 60Hz once somehow by switching between resolutions in Display settings, but I couldn't reproduce this anymore :(

How to achieve 60Hz with external display on Mac?


texts: How do I get syntax highlighting of source code files within Quick Look back in Lion?

texts: Source code files viewed using Quick Look on Snow Leopard had syntax highlighting. Unfortunately the syntax highlighting has disappeared on OS X Lion. Is there a way to get it back?


texts:
I'm connected to an SMB share called SHARE1. I see it in the Finder, on my desktop, etc. with the name SHARE1
Let's say from the Finder, I right click on a file from it, choose Get Info, then copy the smb:// link. It's something like this:
smb://fs1.contoso.com/SHARE1/Path/To/The/File/File1.mov

When this link is opened, it doesn't simply open that file or the folder on SHARE1 that's mounted already. Instead, it mounts another share called File, which is the name of the parent folder.
Now the Finder is connected to two network shares.
Has anyone discovered a way to make this behave nicely, and not mount a second network share? Why anyone would actually prefer SMB links open this way is beyond me.


texts: Why "OS X Utilities" is showing instead of "macOS Utilities" whenever I perform recovery mode

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (retina, 13”, early 2015) running macOS Catalina 10.15.7 and I want to erase or reformat it.
I’m performing a factory reset and Command + R is not working to show the recovery mode so I used Command + Option + R. Instead of “macOS Utilities,” it shows “OS X Utilities.”
When I clicked the “Disk Utility,” I can’t find the HD disk I’m using.
Can someone please help me on how can I successfully reset my MacBook Pro?
Additional information:

My MacBook Pro built-in keyboard is already faulty. The left Shift key always functioning (meaning always on press) so download Karabiner-Elements to disabled my left Shift key.
I don’t have any external keyboard for MacBook. Sometimes I used a Windows keyboard when needed. I tried to use a Windows keyboard to press the Command + R to enter the recovery mode but no luck that’s why I tried the Internet Recovery (Command + Option + R) using the built-in MacBook Pro keyboard.


texts: Missing saved files after updating iPod to iOS 5

texts:
I updated my iPod to iOS 5 and all my apps and their save files are missing. I backed them up to my computer but can not find them.

How do I restore the backup?


texts: Why can't I use the windows 10 boot stick I created for my MBP?

texts:
I want to install Windows 10 on my MBP (early 2011, 15", high sierra). I followed instructions using BootCamp and got to successfully create a USB stick with Windows 10. At the end of the bootcamp procedure, nothing happens (according to the user guide I expected the Mac to restart.) When I restart, it boots into High Sierra. When I restart holding the Option key, I have a single choice for booting on my ssd, but the usb stick seems undetected.
Thanks for helping!
edit : output to command diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         499.9 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +499.9 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh SSD           388.6 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 21.6 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                512.1 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      4.3 GB     disk1s4


texts:
Yesterday I downloaded El Capitan partly via the Appstore. I didn't have the time to finish the installation, so I cancelled the download. Today I want to resume, but the download buttons don't work, and in the update tab I see "waiting..." and a pause button that is greyed out. I restarted and tried again, but nothing changed.

Is there a way to reset this installation or to resume it?


texts: iTunes Match is stuck on the last song in step 2 of the initial process

texts:
iTunes Match has worked well, so far, except the process seems stuck on the last song. I have more than one song 'waiting', so I can't tell which song this is stuck on:

Console shows the (not very)helpful:

11/19/11 3:37:16.652 PM iTunes: _AMDDeviceDetached (thread 0x11302b000): Device 'AMDevice 0x7fe5afcdad00 {UDID = b40482688c52cdaa90ef21796c4dad05f445c06b, device ID = 29, FullServiceName = 58:55:ca:e3:7a:39@fe80::5a55:caff:fee3:7a39._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.}' detached.


texts: Can OneNote display all notes sequentially in one window for quick browsing (like Evernote)?

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OneNote on OS X displays one note in one section of a notebook at a time. Is there a way I can get it to display all notes in a section in one big vertically scrolling window, like Evernote does?

I don't like having to click on each note in the section to view only that note.


texts: How to clean install of MacOS on 2018 MBP

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I have a 13" 2018 MacBook Pro. My System Integrity Protection is off, and T2 security is set to None. After an update to MacOS Catalina 10.15.3, my mac would stay at the bootup screen with an apple logo. I salvaged all my data in recovery mode and tried to reinstall MacOS from there. I ended up getting A software update is required to use this startup disk error in recovery. I then completely wiped the internal SSD, and using another mac and disk drill made a bootable USB with MacOS 10.15.3. I booted that and got the same A software update is required to use this startup disk error in recovery. I tried to reset the mac to its original OS after that with Shift+Option+Command+R, but after loading with a rotating earth for a few minutes I get an exclamation mark sign over that earth with the following below it:

apple.com/support
-1008F

Regarding the inability to boot the MacOS USB stick, I've read that the newer macs can only boot from APFS drives. However, I do not know how to do that. After using disk drill to flash MacOS to a USB, I tried using a  disk utility option Convert to APFS..., but that threw an error.

I have no idea what to do anymore, and would rather not go to an apple store to fix this. Is it even possible for a genius bar person to fix the software? How could I fix this myself?
I do have access to a few decently sized USB drives and a tri boot Windows/Linux/MacOS computer, but no professional tools.

I would like to add I have not been able to install linux either onto my Mac, and not even rEFInd.


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I am using a MacBook Pro 15" Mid-2015, running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3.

The current cycle count is 505, and battery "State of Health" according to coconut Battery is 85.2%.

Here is the battery information as displayed by the system report:

Battery Information:

  Model Information:
  Serial Number:
  Manufacturer: SMP
  Device Name:
  Pack Lot Code:    0
  PCB Lot Code: 0
  Firmware Version: 702
  Hardware Revision:    1
  Cell Revision:    3241
  Charge Information:
  Charge Remaining (mAh):   6316
  Fully Charged:    No
  Charging: No
  Full Charge Capacity (mAh):   7460
  Health Information:
  Cycle Count:  505
  Condition:    Normal
  Battery Installed:    Yes
  Amperage (mA):    -1269
  Voltage (mV): 12124

I suspect some unusual activity with the battery which is not normal. Half an hour ago the battery was fully-charged, it is now at 84% charge.

I'm not running any energy-intensive app, as determined by the energy tab in Activity Monitor app, as shown in the illustration below:

Additionally, my MacBooks dies without any warning. macOS used to notify of low charge previously, but now it just dies without any notification.

I've never seen the percentage when it dies but I am suspicious that the battery isn't hitting 0%.

How do I resolve the issue.


texts: Whats included in Library/Mobile Documents folder and is there anyway to safely decrease the size

texts: I have an iMac running High Sierra 10.13.6.  My internal Drive is about full and I've been looking for ways to clear up some space. My internal drive has a 250 GB capacity and I have around 15 GB of free space. The largest folder on my System is the Library folder listed at 134 GB which appears under my user account. This seems extremely large to me. Inside this Library folder is the Mobile Documents folder at over 91 GB. The largest item in my Mobile Documents directory is a folder named MyBook, which is the name of my external drive. Everything else seems of reasonable size. My question is 2-fold. Why is my 'Library Folder' so Large and is there anything I can do to decrease the size of the Mobile Documents folder.


texts: What video connector for a mid-2012 macbook pro to External Monitor

texts: What are the different (and the best) option for connecting my mid 2012 Macbook pro to an external monitor. Three connections I know of are VGA, HDMI and DVI. What is the difference and what cables do I need? Are there any other options I can consider? Are there any adaptors that let me switch between VGA and DVI?


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When I run:

echo $PATH

I get this:

/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/git/bin

This is obviously completely messed up. So, how can I fix this or reset $PATH?

I'm running on El Capitan.


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iTunes desktop app has a built-in Internet Radio where users have access to a vast collection of free, streaming Internet radio stations?

Listen to Internet radio in iTunes on Mac

Is there a counterpart for the same available in iOS? Say in the Music app. If not is there a 3rd party app which provides this feature and have access to similar stations?

I often listen to a bunch on stations while on my Mac. I looking to  have the same ability available on my iPhone.

Please note, I'm not looking to subscribe to Apple Music. I am exploring if:

The same feature from iTunes desktop app is available in iOS/1st party apps.
3rd party apps which can let me listen to the streaming Internet Radio stations that are available under iTunes for desktop.


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How can I get rid of the WINS NetBIOS Name MacBook-Pro Workgroup is currently being used? It would be great if someone could help me understand what this is exacly.
The devices I see in finder are
1. Macintosh HD
2. Network - Neighborhood (Why do I have to see this)
3. Remote Disk - Remote Volume ( I am not sure what this is exactly)

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
2.6 GHz Intel Core i5
Intel Iris 1536 MB
Mac OS Sierra 10.12.5 (16F73)