texts: How to use Nike Running with iOS 8's Health app?

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I installed iOS 8 on my iPhone 5S today and the got the Health app as a result.

It shows on the Health app that it can get data when the app "sends" data over to the Health app.  So I assume Nike Running (an app from Nike) probably has that built in?  If so, how can the running / walking data be sent over to iOS 8's Health app?

P.S. ok, I saw news headline such as: Apple seemingly removing HealthKit compatible iOS 8 apps from App Store due to issues, and Apple's health monitoring app is DOA: Firm forced to stop apps from using feature as it admits to iOS 8 bug


texts: Which iOS app will let me paste an image?

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TL;DR; Version:
I'm looking for an app (preferably free) that will allow me to past an image from the clipboard and save it either to my photo library or to an online service.

Long Version:
Several months ago I had some photos stored in my Dropbox which accidentically got deleted without my knowing.  I recently realized the photos were gone and that I had no backups of the photos.  The other day I was in the Dropbox app on my iPad in an area which did not have Internet access.  I noticed that Dropbox had in its cache a bunch of the photos I had lost.  However, Dropbox will not allow me to import the photos into the photo libary or print them or share them; all of these actions return with the error "Unable to Connect to Dropbox - There may be a problem with your iPad's Internet connection."  I can't enable the internet connection because that would sync my Dropbox and loose the photos.  The "Copy Image to Clipboard" action does work, however I can't find any app that will let me paste the image and save it.

I have tried using Evernote, and I can paste the image, but the size limit for notes prevents me from syncing the note.  I've tried GMail and I can paste the image but when I send the message the received e-mail does not have the image attached or included in any way.

Is there an app out there that will let me paste an image and either save it to the photo library or sync with an online service?


texts: An app to stop another app (Music Player) after some time

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A friend of mine asked this question "Do you know of any timer apps for iPhone which will close down a particular app after a set period of time?"

On questioning further - the "particular" app happened to be Music Player.


texts: Back up an external hard drive with video on it

texts: Can I use Time Machine to back up an external hard drive that I use to store video on to another external hard drive without having to back up the Mac Book Pro as well?


texts: Time Machine backup is too large (but shouldn't be)

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I get:

This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 35.72 GB but only 24.79 GB are available.

Facts:

Estimated size of full backup: 149 GB

Size of Backups.backupdb on the Time Machine drive is 166 GB and there is 18GB of free space on the drive.

So why doesn't the backup go through? It should be able to delete old files... especially since the current backup size on the drive is less than it is required for the new one.


texts: Find lost photos that show in screen saver

texts: Wonderful older photos that aren't in my library show up on my screen saver. I would love to be able to get to them! I currently use 10.9.3, but this has been happening for a long time.


texts: Switch vibrations for all notifications except phone calls in silent mode

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I would like to receive any type of notifications (e.g.: WhatsApp message notifications) without  vibration. I switched the vibration off under Settings → Sounds → Vibrate on silent, but now the phone calls do not vibrate anymore, and I therefore miss them while carrying in the jeans pocket for example.

Is there any way I can keep the vibration off while receiving notifications and keep it on while receiving calls with my device being in the silent mode?

iOS 9.2


texts: Can I restore one partition of OS X El Capitan?

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I'm trying to install Windows 10 on El Capitan using Boot Camp, I could create the partition, but I need to remove this partition. When I try to enter in Boot Camp again, it shows next error:

You can not divide the boot disk partitions or restore a single partition.
To install Windows, the boot disk must be formatted as a single volume Mac OS Extended (Journaled) or be partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant.

If I access on terminal with diskutil:
MacBook-Pro-de-Javier:~ pecete$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            88.3 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS Blank                   32.0 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh              +88.0 GB    disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 706C3648-CE21-42FE-9D06-17158DD26E5F
                                 Unencrypted
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *62.2 GB    disk2
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 PCT@HOME                62.2 GB    disk2s1

I need to remove the partition "Apple_HFS", so I want to link "Apple_HFS" with "Apple_CoreStorage".
More information:
+-- Logical Volume Group FACD278F-4F66-423F-B262-03E39BA793A7
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         88348913664 B (88.3 GB)
    Free Space:   94208 B (94.2 KB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 7E9E18B9-E2B8-4B99-95C5-CF17BB1BD988
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     88348913664 B (88.3 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family F9B1898F-B0B3-43AB-8E45-F16F85DF582A
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Conversion Status:       Converting
        Reversion State:         Pending
        High Level Queries:      Not Fully Secure
        |                        Has Visible Users
        |                        Has Volume Key
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 706C3648-CE21-42FE-9D06-17158DD26E5F
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          87996497920 B (88.0 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   Paused
            Revertible:            Yes (unlock and decryption required)
            LV Name:               Macintosh
            Volume Name:           Macintosh
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

I need to reach removing this partition of 32 GB.


texts: Selecting all photos in photo booth with a single gesture

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Is there a way to select all the photos in the iPad 2's photo booth application and copy them to a new/existing album? currently I need to select each photo individually by clicking (touching) it.
Am I missing some kind of gesture that will allow me to select all of the existing photos in photo booth?


texts: Shared clipboard between multiple Macbooks

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I have a Macbook Air (2017) and Macbook Pro (early 2015). As a developer, I want to do my development on Pro and browsing, emails and other stuff on my Air at the same time. This requires some copy-paste between the machines.

I was looking at the Universal Clipboard feature. I have followed all the steps in this article but its not working. I am not sure if this is Mac to iOS only feature.

I am running macOS Mojave (10.14.4) on both machines. Please let me know if you require any additional information.

P.S. In the meantime I am using Notes as a shared clipboard.


texts: Can't unenroll from Apple Beta Program: All System Preferences popups freezes

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Version: 10.15 Beta (19A526h).

Behavior:

The window in the picture becomes unresponsive after this popup appears. I can't press "Restore Default" at all. I've restarted my computer, went in terminal and entered sudo softwareupdate --clear-catalog, and then went in the App Store to get the stable release of Catalina. Anyway, it doesn't help because it takes me to System Preferences again, where it becomes unresponsive.

Is there something else I can do to get the stable version of Catalina on my machine?

Update: Was able to use keyboard (tab / space / enter) to select "Restore Default", I enter my password when I'm prompted but then the window just closes and nothing changes. Have also tried the same thing with installing Catalina from Mac Store. After downloading ~6GB, it pops up ad says "Update Not Found: The requested version of macOS is not available."


texts: Prevent OSX from auto-detecting and deleting dates in iCal, Reminders

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I use iCal's month view, so when creating an event I put it as all-day and put the event time in the title, like so: "3:30 meeting with Steve", "9am-10am TYO-NYC flight" (if you find it unusual, I'm not the only one doing this, and this style has benefits such as when dealing with time zones). iCal promptly removes the time from the title and changes the event from all-day to the new time, so I have to edit it again.

Same thing with Reminders application. Even more annoyingly, if you put a link containing a date (eg. http://www.tofugu.com/2013/06/04/how-to-write-letters-in-japanese-an-introduction/), it will convert this to a "remind me on this day" date as well.

It looks like it cannot be turned off anywhere in Preferences, but maybe there is a setting accessible from the command line?

(So far I found only one suggestion online, and it was to type the date twice - iCal will remove one date, but keep the other. While this works, it's annoying and you still need to change the even back to "all-day" and I hope there's a better way.)

I'm running Maverick with all the latest updates.


texts: How to identify if an app is installed on iPhone from Windows PC?

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I am trying to identify programatically from computer if a particular app is installed in my iphone, once the iphone is connected to the computer( Windows OS).

How to proceed with this?


texts: iPhone: How to prevent maximum screen brightness when charging?

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I've set my screen brightness to about 50%. This works fine for me, except that the setting seems to be ignored when it's charging: then it's 100%. I've got a desktop charging stand on my bedside table, and this is exactly the place where I don't need maximum brightness!

How can I make my iPhone respect the brightness setting even when charging?

This is an iPhone 4 (iOS 4.1) but I noticed the same with the iPhone 3G (iOS 3.1.3).


texts: How to get the actual PDF icon rather than the stock one

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I understand that with most apps etc. you can simply press CMD + I to get the Get Info and then from there you can simply select the icon and copy and paste it into another file so that the icons match. However, I have noticed that with files such as PDFs, Images etc, you are unable to get the actual image for the PDF like the one below:

But instead, when you try and copy the icon from Get Info, you simply get given the stock "PDF" icon like below:

My question is: is there a way to get the specific PDF icon for a specific document and copy it across to another PDF even if the contents is not the same?

Thank you in advance for any help,

Kind regards, Rocco


texts: How can I get a raw print queue in the Print & Scan menu?

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I have set up a raw queue (without a PPD) in CUPS via the command line and lpadmin.

It works perfectly if I print files via the command line and lp, but it doesn't appear when I try to add it via Add Printer in Print & Scan in System preferences. As such I cannot print from inside applications.

Any idea on how to get the printer to appear in the list of available printers?

Thanks.


texts:
Basically, vim behaves strange under iTerm2 (it works normally in Terminal). It sets the cursor in a non existing lines, it displays garbage (content from other lines) when I try to edit a line in a file etc. It is completely useless :(

I changed "reported terminal type" to "linux" as suggested in some post, but it didn't help

EDIT

iTerm2 version: Build 1.0.0.20120724 (very latest)
running with env TERM=xterm vim and env TERM=xterm-256color vim does not help


texts: Applescript to automate process for screen cast setup

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I'm currently looking for an Applescript to help automate my desktop processes, as I do a lot of screencasts and I'm looking for something that would do the following.

hide the dock
hide the top bar
change the wallpaper to a specified wallpaper

is there a place on the web that has automator scripts that would do something like this ?


texts: Controlling a microphone connected via combo jack

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Short verstion (TL;DR)

I have a microphone connected to my new MacBook via a splitter adapter (see the picture below), in which you can use the multifunction jack separating the input and output channel, in order to be able to use it not only for headsets, but also to connect audio input sources.

The system says there is an "external Microphone / iPhone headset" device, and I can hear the mic if I test it when I connect it using the splitter, so I guess it detects it.

But it is not listed among the audio input devices, so there is no way to control it, that is using it as input in applications (Skype, Garageband) or changing its volume.

Do you know a way to make this work?

Long version (all details)

Background

Based on the accepted answer to this question I have connected my microphone to my new MacBook via its multifunction combo audio jack, using a 3.5mm 4 Position to 2x 3 Position 3.5mm Headset Splitter Adapter - M/F (see the picture below). The purpose of this adapter is to split the audio channels connected usually to a headset, separating the input and the output, in order to be able to connect a microphone or an audio source just to the input channel.

What works

It works and the systems seems to detect it. In particular, I can hear the microphone on the speakers/headphones. Plus, if I click on "About this Mac" and afterwards on the "Overview" tab I click on "System report", I see a window where if I click on Audio I can also see an item called "External Microphone / iPhone headset", which is the mic channel of the headset, which is what is detected when I connect the Mic like this.

A screenshot of this is below (see the red arrow).

What does not work

But when it is detected like this, the systems seems to not consider it as a proper microphone or audio input, and because of this you cannot control it, that is selecting it as source in applications like GarageBand/Skype or controlling its volume.

In fact, when you want to select the audio source for an application like GarageBand or Skype, it just doesn't appear, and I only see "built-in microphone" in the menu, while I would expect to also see the "External Microphone / iPhone headset) which appears if I click on "System report" as explained in the "what works" section.

Plus, perhaps because of this problem, I cannot even control its volume, which is quite low.

Possible explanation

The system seems to just recognize that it is connected as part of a headset (because I connected it using the splitter above, again see this question for details), but nothing more.

Question(s)

Do you know any advanced setting (or terminal tool) for MacOS or any external application capable of controlling an audio input device (mic or musical instrument) connected like this, in particular setting it as the primary audio input or controlling its volume?

Alternatively, do you know any software capable of making the OS see this audio input device as a normal device instead of seeing it just as part of a headset?


texts: How to create Automator Service to change font of selected text?

texts: I'm trying to create a "Service" in Automator that changes the font of the selected text in the frontmost app.


texts: In the command find theres a switch called name but it doesn't exist in OS X, whats the equivalent switch for OS X?


texts: Why might the App Store draw variable-type strings in place of actual values?

texts:
I have just formatted my drive, and performed a fresh install of Mac OS X Mountain Lion from USB flash drive. When doing my first Software Update, within the App Store application, under the Updates section, the first listed update is the weird looking string "DAHSoftwareUpdate" with title field having the value "DAHSoftwareUpdatesPage.OSUpdates.Title".

Underneath this title, is the correct name of the update (OS X Update Combined 10.8.2, iTunes 11.0.1. Also under the progress bar I see FileSize.MB of FileSize.MB, then the remaining time in minutes.

This seemed odd to me, especially after I get zero google results for "DAHSoftwareUpdate" or even "SoftwareUpdatesPage.OSUpdates.Title".

One possibility, that seems extremely remote, is that the MountainLion.dmg which has been moved around between my backup drives a lot, might have been corrupted, and I'm seeing a weird bug in the AppStore app as a result. It seems much more likely that this is a result of something like a bad localization/language setting, but that would not account for the zero hits for the variable names showing.

Can someone explain what's going on here?


texts: How to exclude mailboxes within a smart mailbox?

texts:
I have made some smart mailboxes in Mail.app. The smart mailboxes I am using only for my Gmail account.

While they send the emails to the smart mailbox they always send duplicates. The email from the Gmail account, email from the whole inbox and email labeled 'important'. Apparently every single email I get is labelled as 'important'. Whenever the mailboxes refresh, they add the duplicates back to the smart mailbox.

I only want one copy to appear in the mailbox. Is there a way to exclude these duplicates or am I just stuck with it?


texts: Re-upgrade to macOS Mojave (esp. parts relating to iCloud) without loosing data, etc

texts:
So my iCloud setup is brokenly, apparently because an incomplete macOS Mojave upgrade (from High Sierra). How can I "re-upgrade" to (reinstall) Mojave without loosing my existing data (e.g. in /Users/) and applications (e.g. /Applications/Audio\ Hijack.app/)?

For instance, is Command + R on startup (then "Reinstall macOS") the right entry point, or can I just repeat the part of the installation that is concerned with iCloud?


texts: How to disable to login screen shortcut (Cmd+Alt+L)

texts: I'm trying to find where this shortcut is being configured under Snow Leopard but I simply can not. Any help would be appreciated!


texts:
I want to know how extract by terminal the Darwin version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Sierra#Releases

For macOS Sierra 10.12.3 is 16.4.0 for 10.12.6 is 16.7.0.

Now, I want to create:

--build=x86_64-apple-darwin$(uname -r)

Is it possible obtain this complete value?

x86_64-apple-darwin16.4.0


texts: Multiple Macs and the OS X Lion Hardware Up-to-Date Program?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Which new Mac purchasers get free upgrades to 10.7?

I'm due for a free update to Mac OS X Lion, as I bought an iMac in July after the cut-off date for free updates.

When I go to claim the free update on the apple web site, it asks me to enter the serial numbers of all "qualifying macs". If I just enter the number of the Mac that I bought most recently, will I be able to install Lion on the other ones manually? I assume so, but I don't want to accidentally short myself $30 :)


texts: Annotation/Highlight doesn't work in Apple Preview

texts:
I have a screenshot. I want to highlight some parts of it. The highlight icon is disabled; the Tools > Annotate > Highlight Text is greyed out.

Why? And how can I highlight easily on my screenshot png file?


texts: Time Machine backup drive doesn't have enough room to back up to

texts: My MacBook Pro has a 1 TB drive with 750 GB used. I keep receiving a message from Time Machine saying I don't have enough room to backup and to remove files. The Time Machine disk is 1 TB as well and I'm at a loss to see what to do.


texts: How preserve JPEG date stamps during Automator scaling?

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Automator services embedded as a context menu are a great way to quickly scale down JPEGs in the finder. Right click the file, choose your scaling script, done in seconds. The problem is it obliterates the files' date stamps, overwriting them with the date of the scaling operation.

Is there a way to use Automator to preserve date stamps during scaling?

If not in Automator is there a better way of doing this?


texts: Cocoa app to publish podcasts vs Mobile friendly site

texts:
I'm not sure of the legal implications of what I am trying to do, but here it goes.

There is a radio show that I love listening to. It comes on everyday and the podcasts are uploaded to a website so users can download and listen to them for free. The website isn't very navigable, however, and it's extremely hard to play the podcasts from my phone (and, therefore, my car).

I have a long commute and I would love it if I could either access these podcasts via some kind of iphone app or maybe even a mobile-friendly website. I am first trying to figure out which would be better (iphone app vs mobile friendly website) and how sketchy you think it would be for me to develop the app (or site) and then offer it to the radio show for them to upload their podcasts. Alternatively, if they didn't want it, I would just download the podcasts from the site and re-upload them to mine.

Please note I am not trying to make any money off this, I am only trying to make it easy for people like me (with long commutes) to enjoy this particular radio show without having to navigate the existing (dysfunctional) site- risking the lives of dogs, squirrels, and other drivers in the process.


texts: When I try to use Animoji, I see "Tap to resume"

texts:
When I try to use Animoji, I get the following message/error:

  Tap to resume

Additionally, when I tap on my Memoji, I get

  Face tracking failed. Tap to retry

However, tapping does not resolve the issue. I've also tried a hard reboot/force restart, resetting all settings, and erasing the phone and resetting all settings—and none of those fixed the problem.

Face ID seems completely unaffected.

What can I do to fix this?


texts: How to use the "Paste Formatting" function via Keyboard in PowerPoint?

texts:
In Powerpoint 2013 (Windows) there is a function "Paste formatting only" (Ctrl + Shift + V) that will apply formatting of the object in the clipboard to the currently selected object (see list of shortcuts).

In Powerpoint 2011 (Mac) so far I could not find a similar function (see list of shortcuts).

Does such a command exist and is there a way to use it with keyboard shortcuts? Can it maybe simulated with a VBA macro?


texts: Can't stay signed in to Game Center for more than 10 minutes

texts: Every time I sign in to the Game Center via my iPad's Settings, my profile window won't close. Ten minutes later I am no longer signed in to Game Center and have to do it all again. As a result my games' contents are not updating and I lose game progress. (especially in Sims Freeplay) Recurring problem since 6 July 2014.


texts: iPhone 4 camera roll "time created" information

texts: I recently took a photo with my iPhone 4 and soon after e-mailed it to someone. When I downloaded my photos to my computer I noticed that the "time created" information showed a time that was after I had e-mailed the photo. How is that possible?


texts: How to turn off new popup for spell checking in Word for Mac on macOS 11.3

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After the last macOS update, a popup started appearing when you click on a misspelled word in Word for Mac.

This is a very frustrating function when you work in several different languages not always wanting to spell-check even though the red underscoring is good as a reminder. Hence, I want to keep the previous functionality to get suggestions when right-clicking on an underscored word but would really want to turn this popup function off. Does anyone know how this could be done?
The only option I've found is to turn spell-checking as you write off completely, which also removes the red underscoring that I'd like to keep.


texts: How to recover .photoslibrary files in an erased partition?

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I made a mistake in which I erased an external drive with some originals .photoslibrary files that were not backuped.

I am using in this moment photorec to retrieve the lost files (appointed as being placed in a HFSX partition by R-Studio for mac (do not confuse it with the statistics software R-Studio).

The point is that in the outcome of photorec software I am receiving thousands of files completely messed up, obviously without names and dates, and I'm wondering that if I could retrieve only .photoslibrary files, usually easily located for their often gigabyte-sized characteristic, it would be the best solution ever.

The point is: apparently none of these file-recovery softwares are able to locate and to find .photoslibrary files, perhaps because it is a package or treated like a directory in some way..

I would appreciate any way of locating and restoring .photoslibrary files or if I could in some way rebuild my HFSX partition securely in order to access my lost drive again.


texts: As Photo Stream pushes pictures to other devices, does it do the same for videos, or is it strictly pictures? If so, how would I push video clips to other devices, or would it be best to sync to my iMac desktop?


texts: Passing alt/opt key sequence over ssh to remote host with iTerm

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Just learning the ropes of my new MacBook Pro.

I have a linux workstation at the office that I use to host a number of tmux sessions, which represent whatever Im working on at a given time.

If out and about I will ssh into this workstation using iterm2 and tmux attach -t to any given session.
In tmux I have certain keys bound to certain actions, specifically, I have the movement between panes bound to Alt+[HJKL] to move in a given direction.

I'll bet you can see the problem! Mac therefore No Alt key!
Is there a way I can map the apple key (or some other key) to be recognised as Alt when ssh'd to this host? or even globally if its not a per host setting?

Thanks in advance


texts: All Desktops swiping brings the app front

texts:
When an app is selected as all desktops while switching from one desktop to another even though another app is in front of this app, it automaticly brings the app front then puts it to behind again. To prevent this I always have to hide the app before changing desktops. Is there a general setting which will prevent this?

While swiping left to right from behind of xcode to front of chrome then goes behind of chrome.


texts:
I ran a disk check on my hard disk and the Disk Utility tells me "Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.".

The last physical disk I had was the Leopard -> Snow Leopard upgrade and I now do not know where that disk is.

Is there a way that I can create a bootable CD, DVD or flash drive, boot the computer from that and repair the hard disk?

I have Snow Leopard 10.6.8.


texts: I have Dropbox installed on my Mac with OS X Lion 10.8.2. I don't use it often, so I eliminated it from the login item list. However, every time I open Dropbox from the application folder, it automatically add itself to the login item list. Is that normal, even if I locked changes? Can I prevent Dropbox to add itself to my item list every time I open it?


texts: Are these Canon websites safe to download printer software?

texts:
I'd like some drivers for printer. Is Canon site safe to download them as self-installed trojans are Mac's worst nightmare and I have no real time scanner to detect if something comes in.

Google gives me both sites, but is there any difference?

https://www.usa.canon.com

http://www.canon-europe.com

I just find it weird one is canon.com while other canon-europe.com - if it is same company, shouldn't it be europe.canon.com...

Not sure what to trust or to trust either at all.
And connecting printer to Mac will not offer download so I need this...


texts: browser extension recommendation for low speed high latency service

texts:
I'm on a satellite link.  The minimum latency for a round trip packet is 700 ms.  I've seen it take as much as 10,000 ms.

If I have a single browser window open and type 1 character into a search field, I get a rash of packets running back and forth between my machine and the search engine.

In the Bad Old Days of using teletype terminals (now you know how old I am...) you could put the terminal into 'line mode' where it wouldn't send the line until you hit carriage return/line feed.

I'm looking for a browser/extension combination that will:

Where possible block together multiple keystrokes and send them in a single packet.
Block all tracking packets.  (I already run no-script on a pretty short leash.)
Show a traffic flow by tab.

The first would decrease the per keystroke problem.

Second  saves

A dns lookup
An HTTP tcp setup
An http get
An http tcp teardown
(Above assumes a new site for each tracker)

Number 3  gives you a quick show of which tab is being a bandwidth pig.  Ideally it would report much like multi router traffic grapher.

One user suggested Lynx.  Lynx was a PITA at the best of times.  I'd hate to use lynx with 30 tabs open.  (Or 30 terminal windows open.)


texts: Do apps placed in the background consume resources?

texts: I've heard that leaving open apps on an iPhone, affects the duration of the battery's charge. Is this true and documented, or some of an urban legend? And does it affects other apps' performance?


texts: I swim with (some) regularity. Is there a way for me to edit the Health app fitness section to add a Swim chart / category?


texts: Why does Microsoft Messenger 8.0 crash when I open a new chat window?

texts:
Microsoft Messenger For Mac 8.0 crashes sometimes when I try to open a new chat window.
Moreover there is no any error logged in Console.

My system is Mac OS X 10.6.5 at a Mac Book Pro.
Find the screenshot showing the problem here:

Any suggestions?


texts: Can I delete StoreData found at /private/var/log/powermanagement/StoreData?

texts:
I had a problem backing-up my (mid-2007) iMac running El Capitan using SuperDuper. I sent SuperDuper the error log and they suggested that I delete StoreData found at /private/var/log/powermanagement/StoreData

Can I simply put StoreData in the trash and empty it? Will deleting the file cause any problems for my system? Do I need to re-create a blank StoreData file somehow? If so, what is the file extension?


texts: Phone battery use searching for a signal

texts:
I just got hi speed internet and turned on wi-if calling on my iPhone 6 since I have poor signal at home. Also just installed a signal extender(booster)from Verizon, which increased my signal to full strength.
Since I don't need both I was going to send back the $160. Extender to Verizon, but would my phone then be searching for a better signal even though its on wifi calling and using more battery life?


texts:
We are having some issues with 2 Mac minis running Mojave.  They go to sleep after a couple of minutes the user logs out.

We tried playing with the pmset settings without luck

Here are my current settings

~/Documents/vc:$ pmset -g

System-wide power settings:

Currently in use:

standby 1

Sleep On Power Button 1

womp 1

autorestart 0

hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage

proximitywake 1

powernap 0

gpuswitch 2

networkoversleep 0

disksleep 0

standbydelayhigh 86400

sleep 0

hibernatemode 3

ttyskeepawake 1

displaysleep 0

tcpkeepalive 1

highstandbythreshold 50

standbydelaylow 86400

Does anyone knows how to keep them awake 24/7?  Our monitoring systems complain about the minis being unreachable.


texts: How can I restart the text to speech feature?

texts: I use the text to speech feature a lot. Sometimes, after I put the macbook to sleep and come back to it the feature no longer works. I would have to shutdown/restart the computer in order for the feature to work. Is there are a way to restart/enable text to speech without restarting the computer?


texts: Migrate local user account to network account

texts: If I have a user with a local profile on their mac and they want to migrate all the data to a network based account (OS X Lion server), what's the best way to do this?


texts: How I can set a dot to center of MacBook monitor?

texts: Actually, I'm a gamer and for better shooting, I wanna set a dot to the center of my MacBook screen. in some games like Call of duty or CSGO this dot help me to better shoot.


texts: Software uninstalled from brew still on $PATH

texts:
I've uninstalled software from brew (as I want to use a different version), using MacOS High Sierra 10.13.1

brew uninstall bowtie2

And downloaded the software from SourceForge instead, then copied the executables onto the $PATH

which bowtie2

> /usr/local/bin/bowtie2

However when I try to run the command

bowtie2

I get the error

> -bash: /usr/local/Homebrew/bin/bowtie2: No such file or directory

So it's still searching for the old path in the Homebrew folder. How do I change this?


texts: On Windows I can Shift Right-click in a folder and I am presented with the option to Open a Command Window Here. Is there a way I can do this on my MacBook Air? Or, do I need to open the terminal manually, and then cd to the destination folder?


texts: How to reset security questions if I forgot them

texts:
I've forgotten security questions to my account and I want to reset them. I've logged into my Apple ID, went to security section, and went ahead and clicked the link which says "Reset security questions?" in case I've forgotten it, which is my case.

I've entered my password, and it is asking for the answers of the  very security questions that I'm trying to reset. What is the point of asking the answers after clicking the link to reset them in the case that I've forgotten it?

Am I doing something wrong?


texts: OS X 10.10 Yosemite -DisableSleepProxyClient

texts:
I have a Mac Pro from 2009. Its in my bedroom. Prior to 10.10 I was able to disable periodic wake (when Wake on Lan is enabled) with adding -DisableSleepProxyClient to com.apple.mDNSResponder. I was able to wake my Mac with a magic packet (WOL). In 10.10 this was changed to discoverydp and now I am wondering if it is still possible to disable this.

console log entry if it matters

19.10.14 07:38:51.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)


texts:
My iPad Pro (12.9 inch first gen) will randomly stop charging, in the manner shown below, requiring me to unplug and plug back in the cable.

Is there any way to stop this, because I can no longer charge overnight/away from my device, and I have to constantly check it to make sure it is charging.


texts: Unable to force quit Chrome (Yosemite) OS X 10.10.4

texts:
I tried to force quit Google Chrome when it started to hang while the other applications (Safari) was working fine. However, it didn't shut cut as usual and just leaves me hanging. I tried to search this site and came across some solutions where someone recommended using the sudo command in the Terminal.

Tried the sudo command to force quit but it didn't work so I tried to uninstall the app using the sudo command. However, it did not uninstall the Chrome app instead, the Chrome icon flickers for a moment and changes into a blank document icon. Running out of ideas. Safari app is running fine along with the other apps.


texts: Pinning Apps to dock VIA terminal or installation arguments OS Sierra

texts: I am using meraki MDM systems manager to deploy applications for are teachers. It would save me a-lot of heart ache to be able to include a terminal command or some type of software to help with automatically pinning things to the dock, so i don't have to touch each device individually thanks in advanced!!


texts:
I just got a new iMac and I am trying to transfer my music from my old MacBook onto my new iMac. I have all the songs in iTunes Library.
Thank You all


texts: Is it possible to omit password from fast user switching and/or login screen?

texts:
I'd like to keep user passwords and require them when doing any administrative tasks as they are required in the default installation on Mac OS X.

Is it possible to be tweaked/hacked so that OS X won't ask for password when switching users? Or so that OS X won't ask for password in the login screen?

It is also essential that password is required for any remote login attempts — as they're in the default installation — be it SSH, SMB, VNC or the like.

I'm using OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6

Case example (added after first answer):

I have two administrator accounts which I would like to allow log in and switch to locally without entering password. With "locally" I mean the login screen that is shown when computer is booted or user has logged out; and also the fast user switch password prompt, which is shown when the password-protected user is selected via fast user switch menulet.

Password should be entered if an administrative task is initiated. (I would rather not want a one common administrator account, but separate users and separate passwords.)

If user wants to login in, for example via SSH, the password should be entered. (I would rather not want separate "remote-access accounts", because I would like to use my accounts' resources hassle-free.)


texts: How can I delete cookies for one site in Safari, without deleting local data?

texts:
I'm having trouble logging in to a website in Safari, so I wanted to delete cookies for that one site. I went to Safari > Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data And searches for the site's name, but I see that the site is using cookies and local storage. I don't want to delete the local storage, just the cookies.

This is on Mac OS X 10.15.7 with Safari version 14.0 (15610.1.28.1.9, 15610)
In Safari, How can I delete just the cookies for a single site and leave the local data?


texts: du reports subdirectory sizes which add up to more than the total disk size

texts:
My total physical drive space is 256GB and i am not connected to any remote storage.
When i run du -sxh ./* 2>/dev/null in zsh shell on macOS Big Sur 11.2.3, i get the following results:
39G    ./Applications
2.8G   ./Library
209G   ./System
131G   ./Users
2.8G   ./private
5.0G   ./usr
...(rest of the output is omitted)
total is at around 389GB
So my question is then, why does the the output add put to more than 1.5 of my total physical storage capacity?
In my research on this problem i was primarily relying on this answer.
My question is very similar to this one, however 1) there was no response 2) comments there suggested that this is due to hard linked files, which i have supposedly excluded with -x argument


texts:
I'm filling out a PDF form that doesn't work with Preview so I have to use Adobe Reader (ugh).  After I fill out the form, I want to print it to PDF so that it is finalized.

Unfortunately, Adobe disables the Mac print to PDF and tells me I have to save as PDF instead, but if I save as PDF then other people can still edit it.  My current annoying solution is to print it to paper and then scan it.

Anyone know a way to circumvent Adobe's disabling of the Mac print to PDF feature?


texts: What advantages are there to removing a stolen device from your iCloud account?

texts:
Apple's stolen iPhone advice lists the final step - after having erased the device - as:

Remove your lost or stolen device from your list of trusted devices.

However, it is clear from the "If the previous owner isn't with you" section of How to remove Activation Lock that this will remove the lock and allow the thief to use/sell the phone. This has been discussed previously and it also seems clear that the erased and logged-out device will not pose a security risk to your account. It thus seems like terrible advice. Furthermore, it is not hard to find examples of people removing their device too soon (such as before it has been erased).
I can only see this step as adding value to thieves. It would surely be better to instead provide additional warnings when removing a device of what the consequences are for Find My and activation lock etc. Why would Apple possibly advise this? Are there any advantages to doing it?


texts: How do I get the iTunes play control widget back in Dashboard?

texts:
In OS X 10.7 Lion, the iTunes dashboard widget from 10.6 Snow Leopard is no longer on the dashboard, I can't find a method of adding it again, it doesn't appear to be listed.

I frequently used this to control play/pause and track forward back.


texts: dx11 feature level 10.0 is required to run the engine issue on bootcamp

texts:
I have macOS(macbook pro 2018) Catalina and I have windows 10 on Bootcamp. I have directx 12 installed with 10_0 present ald all the accelerations enabled. Why do I get this?
I also get this error when I start the windows saying there is an issue with my amd driver

This error with the amd driver appeared only after I tried uptading all my dirvers with driver easy.

I have the game installed on a different ssd if that matters.

Is BootCampDrivers.com safe?
that solved the issue. thanks a lot


texts: Touch Bar typing suggestions not working globally

texts:
I have MacBook Pro 2020 running on Big Sur.
The typing autocompletion is not working for me globally (that is, in evey app is should be availiable, e.g. apple notes).
I have the keyboard icon availiable when I focus on a text field, but when I click it it looks like that:

Tried to go to go to System Preferences>Keyboard>Text and uncheck and recheck the Touch Bar typing suggestion, but the same behaviour happens.
Any idea what should solve this?


texts: viewing old imessages (for free, on a PC)

texts: I'm writing something to a friend that requires extensive knowlege of our past iMessage convos; and, since I haven't a 2.3 GB memory myself, and it would take hours to scroll all the way up, I'd like to be able to view the whole thing as a text file or any equivalent such that I can scroll to the start easily. Most solutions for this I've seen on the web involve using a Mac, and I don't have one. My iMessages are on a 4th-generation iPad. I have a PC running Windows 10 and two running Xubuntu. Can anyone help me out? I'm kind of desperate.


texts: Find original filename after Data Rescue recovery

texts:
Recently, I lost 1,7TB on videofiles on my external hard drive. A terrible loss since it took me many evenings categorising all this data.
With a deep-scan with DataRescue 3, I was able to recover most of it, but they all have the same awful filename "M00001.avi", "M00002.avi",...

First question, is there any way to improve this results? Meaning to retrieve the file including the proper naming?


texts:
I am unable to activate SMS Relay (aka Text Message Forwarding) between my iPhone 5s running iOS 8.1 and (a) my iMac running Yosemite and (b) my iPad Air running iOS 8.1. Neither the iMac nor the iPad displays the activation code which is supposed to appear when Text Message Forwarding is activated on the iPhone.

The iMac is shown as "iMac (24-inch, Early 2009)" on the About This Mac summary, so is no doubt too early to support SMS Relay (elsewhere I've seen references to 2011 models being the earliest supported). So my first question is: [1] Am I out of luck even trying for SMS Relay on my iMac?

My iPad Air is only a few months old, which I would expect to meet the requirements for SMS relay. However, it is a Wi-Fi only model, so my second question is: [2] Is it necessary to have a cellular iPad for SMS relay to work?


texts:
After updating latest patch on High Sierra 10.13 on a 2012 MacBook Air, I can no longer copy and paste text. I restarted computer, booted into safe mode, tried copy and pasting in various applications like Textedit. If I do 'cut', the text goes away but clipboard in Finder shows it's empty.

Activity Monitor shows pboard and pbs processes exist. I killed it and a new one appears with same problem. The problem happens using keyboard shortcuts as well as using menu. When I do Command-c, The Edit menu blinks blue while I do that. Drag and drop text works fine. Mouse keys are turned off. I don't have virtualbox. I don't have Copied or additional clipboard software installed.

How can I determine what the problem is? This was working fine yesterday.

Update: Copy and paste was fixed by restoring from Time Machine backup. Reapplying the same High Sierra patch worked fine after that.


texts: iTunes install error 45075 on Windows 8.1

texts:
I've attempted to install iTunes on Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit for the first time. I downloaded the latest iTunes64Setup.exe from Apple's website, and the install seemingly completes without error.

However, when I run iTunes, I get the error "A required iTunes component is not installed" with error number 45075, and then iTunes closes.

The install process didn't involve any component selection/deselection, so I'm not sure what caused this. Also, this is a clean install of Windows so I don't imagine existing installs are interfering.

I've tried:

repairing the install
uninstall/reinstall
this advice to uninstall all other Apple components (Bonjour, Quicktime, etc), before reinstalling. However, in my case there are no other existing Apple components that might be interfering.

Any suggestions on a fix?


texts: Change Spaces on all connected displays at once

texts:
Just a simple question - my day-to-day setup is a MacBook Pro with 2 connected external displays. I want to try to organize my different "tasks" (writing code, testing/web browsing, and notes) into different Spaces. The keyboard shortcuts to change Spaces only take effect on my currently-selected screen.

Is there a way to change Spaces across all displays at once? If not with a built-in function, maybe a third-party app?


texts: AppleScript: Wait for Firefox Page to load

texts:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/320105/319746

I was trying to find a Firefox equivalent to the script in the link above under the line "Safari's Reload button", which monitors particular properties of Safari's Reload button. Therefore, I tried to write my own script for Firefox:

tell application "Firefox"
    activate
end tell

tell ¬
    application "System Events" to tell ¬
    process "Firefox" to tell ¬
    window 1 to tell ¬
    toolbar 2 to tell ¬
    groups to tell ¬
    UI element 1 to ¬
    set reload_button to a reference to ¬
        (first button whose name is "Reload current page")

using terms from application "System Events"
    repeat until the accessibility description ¬
        of the reload_button ¬
        contains "Reload current page"
    end repeat
end using terms from

log "Finished loading"

However, my script fails at "tell window 1". I guess many parts of the script do not work for Firefox. How should I modify the script?


texts: iPhone 5 (a1429) is not giving an option to bypass an update on the start screen. How do I avoid the update?

texts:
When browsing the net the phone displayed a message saying there was a virus/Trojan on the phone and to press ok to remove it. The only option, other than to press ok, was to shut the phone off.

After shutting the phone off it restarted and now says "Software Update Available Tap Ok to get the latest software update". This is most unusual as you normally have an option to bypass any update.

How can I bypass the update? Secondly, is this some sort of virus and how could I tell?


texts: Can I download an older version of an app from the App Store?

texts:
I want to download an older version of the Disney Now iOS app. The version I have installed is currently up to date, but I want one that is older.

Is there a way to do that?


texts: 2TB Seagate Expansion Portable Hard Drive not appearing in Disk Utility

texts: I know this has been asked before but I wanted some help ASAP so recently my Seagate 2TB External Hard Drive was working fine, then all of a sudden it stopped working while I was copying some JPEGs to my Desktop. I thought it was weird so I force ejected my hard drive and tried plugging it back in to see if that'd work. Now it won't show up at all. Not in my Disk Utility, or Finder or even desktop. I ran a "diskutil list" in my terminal and it wouldn't even show up there. The ONLY place it shows any signs of life are; The blue light is on indicating that it has power, and in my About This Mac --> System Report --> USB, it shows up as "Expansion" and has the same S/N as my hard drive so I can confirm that they're one and the same. This is a huge inconvenience to me and since I only bought this product about a month ago I was expecting a lot more out of it. I've never damaged it in any way and have lots of important data stored on this hard drive. I'd really appreciate any help.


texts: Time machine backup to a .sparsebundle on USB drive?

texts:
I noticed that when I migrated from backing up over USB to SMB that Time Machine started using sparse bundles for backup. I was unsuccessful in using this bundle as a backup drive when connecting to the hard drive directly via USB.

I tried mounting the bundle, but macOS complained about insufficient permissions. I then took ownership of the bundle and successfully mounted it manually — still not listed in the Time Machine settings.

Is it possible to back up to a local sparsebundle? I would like to default to SMB backups, but have the choice to use USB3 for speed.


texts:
Asking for a friend...

He's having issues with local snapshots being taken by Time Machine.  He doesn't want to disable Time Machine entirely, but due to disk space issues causing performance issues, he wants to have local snapshots disabled - he connects to the network regularly enough that the networked time machine does backups frequently enough.

On previous versions of MacOS, he could run the command

sudo tmutil disablelocal

to only have the remote backups enabled.

This command aparrently does not work any more.  What can be done to configure the system in the same way?


texts: Changing email addresses on my @me.com and @icloud.com

texts: When I was married I started both my @me.com and @icloud.com accounts.  The accounts are my first name and last (previously married) name run together.  Now that I am divorced I don't want that as my email.  I would rather have a different name at the front of my email.  How do I go about changing both accounts to another name and getting all my devices and itunes accounts moved over.


texts:
Since upgrading from Mountain-Lion to Yosemite, my MacBookPro5,5 (13", 2.26GHz C2D, GeForce 9400m) is (almost always) showing bad performance while working with native windows like Finder, System Preferences and Application Switcher. Even simple things like scrolling a folder in Finder spikes the CPU up. 'WindowServer' process shows high cpu usage (above 50%) while doing these and always tops the 'Total cpu usage' in Activity Monitor.

Updating to 10.10.2, erasing the disk and making a fresh install, following any recommendations about transparency/display/... settings I can found on the web (summarized mostly in WindowServer high CPU on Yosemite and its follow ups), even applying combinations of them did not have any significant effect. This is a clean install (not an update) and I only have Google Chrome as an external/installed app. I don't have an external monitor, although I even tried the recommendations including one...

I have installed Mavericks and this problem is not present now, but I will have to upgrade to Yosemite soon... Has anyone found a working solution yet?


texts:
In Mail on Mac OS X Lion, is there a way to select an entire thread of messages and forward them to someone in a single e-mail?

Ideally I'm looking for a simple command in Mail (press ⌘ while selecting, or something like that), but I'm open to a more complex (AppleScript?) solution.


texts:
I was looking at the versions section of Wikipedia's article for OS X and I realized that all versions are prefixed with 10. Why? What is the logic behind prefixing al versions with a number that never changes?

Does it have to do something with the X in OS X? Why is it OS X? Is there some kind of fanaticism over the number 10 at Apple?


texts: macOS Catalina Mail creates Recovered Messages repeatedly

texts:
After upgrading to Catalina Apple Mail started to behave differently. In particular, sending email became very slow/delayed and this, I believe, (re)creates Recovered Messages On My Mac mailbox. First, you can notice Outbox lasting long and the Recovered Messages appears in On My Mac mailbox even if you delete all of those previously. So, each sending is long and makes this happen.

I have a similar problem. I updated to Catalina 10.15.2 today, and the problem is still showing. Each time I write a new message, Mail creates a bunch of new "Recovered Messages" local mailbox with copies of the message.
I tried to Rebuild the Mailbox as Apple recommends in that case, but the problem didn't go away.


texts:
Safari can ben opened from a terminal automatically

open -a safari

When comes to close it, I have to press 'Cmd+Shift+W' or click quit option in dock

Is it possible to quit safari automatically? like

close -a safari


texts: OSX utility for copy/pasting a text file in a FIFO queue fashion

texts:
There are a few similar questions regarding "clipboard managers" but nothing that quite suits my needs.

I often end up with an unformatted list of text that needs entering into various form fields. I'm looking for a utility that makes the clipboard act like a FIFO queue using a pre-defined text file of this nature.

Say I have a text file with 30 names

Adam
Alice
...
Will
Zara

I'd like to be able to paste this list into the clipboard manager. I'd then switch to the form, click the first box, press a hotkey and the first item would be "popped" from the list and pasted into the box. I'd then click the second box, press the hotkey again and the next name would be popped and pasted.

As a bonus, it would also be cool if I could do the reverse: click an item, press a hotkey and it's appended to a text file (or a list that can be easily exported as an unformatted text file). I've seen that lots of these other tools can build a list within the app itself, but I really need the output to be in a text file to use for other purposes.


texts: mac os x - usb hid - how the receive device added / device removed callbacks?

texts:
I'm a beginner at programming on mac os x.

I am following this tutorial.

And I have this program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <IOKit/hid/IOHIDManager.h>
#include <IOKit/hid/IOHIDKeys.h>
#include <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h>

static void Handle_DeviceMatchingCallback(void *inContext, IOReturn inResult, void *inSender, IOHIDDeviceRef inIOHIDDeviceRef)
{
    puts("YAY Handle_DeviceMatchingCallback");
}

static void Handle_DeviceRemovalCallback(void *inContext, IOReturn inResult, void *inSender, IOHIDDeviceRef inIOHIDDeviceRef)
{
    puts("YAY Handle_DeviceRemovalCallback");
}

int main()
{
    IOHIDManagerRef HIDManager = IOHIDManagerCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, kIOHIDOptionsTypeNone);
    IOHIDManagerSetDeviceMatching(HIDManager, NULL);

    IOHIDManagerRegisterDeviceMatchingCallback(HIDManager, &Handle_DeviceMatchingCallback, NULL);
    IOHIDManagerRegisterDeviceRemovalCallback(HIDManager, &Handle_DeviceRemovalCallback, NULL);

    IOHIDManagerScheduleWithRunLoop(HIDManager, CFRunLoopGetMain(), kCFRunLoopDefaultMode);

    IOReturn IOReturn = IOHIDManagerOpen(HIDManager, kIOHIDOptionsTypeNone);
    if(IOReturn) puts("IOHIDManagerOpen failed.");

    while(1)
    {
        puts("sleeping...");
        sleep(1);
    }

    return 0;
}

What I am doing wrong, because I do not get the callbacks when I insert or remove any hid device in the USB port.


texts:
I found a simple script to run Adobe Distiller on some file.

on run argv
    with timeout of (8 * 60) seconds
        tell application "Acrobat Distiller"
            Distill sourcePath item 1 of argv
        end tell
    end timeout
end run

How can I change page size inside this script?

Or should I modify x.joboptions file and ask Distiller to reload it?
How can I do it?

I'm new to AppleScript, and the documentation for Distiller API is not enough for me.


texts: Browsers won't load css/js files with https URL

texts:
Firefox, Safari and Chrome won't load any CSS or JS files when I open an HTTPS url, for example on Twitter, it will only load the HTML.

When I look at firebug in Firefox I get the following errors:

Mac OS X version: 10.6.7
And all my browsers are up to date.

Anyone any idea what it could be?


texts: Why Handoff is not working after network reset? (iOS/iPadOS 13.2)

texts:
I reset Network settings on my iPhone XS and on my iPad Pro (2018) two days ago. Since then, Handoff works only from iPhone to Mac (10.14.6) but it doesn’t in the other direction.

I have already turned off every option suggested by support and restarted devices before turning them back on.

What can I do now? Why is this happening?


texts: How to use Dropbox to share files in Finder by right click on Mac OS 10.8?

texts:
In Mac OS 10.7, when I right click a file in Dropbox folder, there's a "Dropbox" option which could share files or get the URL of the file. Also there's a "Dropbox" button in Finder's toolbar.

But in 10.8, that feature disappeared.

How can I share files using Dropbox by right clicking in Finder?


texts: ubuntu style change workspace in osx mavericks

texts:
is there any way to make osx (mavericks) change the between workspaces like ubuntu > 12.0

i mean the 4 window workspaces and switching by going up/down/right/left

the current change workspace in osx is only left/right


texts: iTunes Connect - Contact Info form not working

texts:
Okay, so I go to iTunes Connect to manage the contracts I have to sign to become a developer (yeah, fun stuff, and I got to encounter a bunch of fun puzzles on the way, see my Stack Overflow profile). I go to the "Agreements, Tax, and Banking" section and click "Contact Info" and fill that out. I then click the "Done" button on my screen. The dialog for it later disappears and so does my contact info. As in, when I go to select a contact for each thing listed there, the only thing selectable is Select.

Typically, I'd ask this on Stack Overflow, but it's not about programming. It's simply about the final information that's somehow even more confusing and makes you want to throw even more inanimate objects across the room. Any ideas on how to fix this in the sense where I can actually select my information?


texts: iPhone - prevent automatic hotspot tethering when connecting to computer

texts:
How can I turn off automatic personal hotspot activation when connecting an iPhone to a computer (Windows in this case)?  I had it plugged in when downloading an iOS update and it downloaded the update over cellular data instead of home Wi-Fi.

I understand I can turn it off manually each time by going into settings, but how can I have it not turn on automatically so that I can only turn it on manually as desired to prevent accidental usage?


texts: Why do certain command key combinations not make it to remote screen sharing server?

texts:
Using MacOS 10.10.5 on a recent Macbook Air, I'm trying to use X-windows emacs on a remote Linux server via vnc. I have the Mac command key configured as the emacs 'Meta' key, and it works fine for Meta-F, Meta-B, Meta-X, etc...

However, certain key combinations: Meta-P, Meta-Q (command-{P,Q} on the mac) don't get transmitted correctly, making the experience very frustrating.

Is there a way to change something in this setup to get those keys to work?


texts: How to tell Timemachine that the Machine Dir has moved?

texts:
On my Mac, I used Time Machine to backup to a Drobo that was directly attached. I've now connected this Drobo to my TimeCapsule. I however want to continue backing up to the Drobo, not the TimeCapsule.

I have told the TimeCapsule to share its disks, and can mount the Drobo Disk fine, and it appears under /Volumes as "Drobo".

However, when I tell TimeCapsule to use the new disk, it does not recognize the presence of the old backups on the disks. Instead of using the machine directory present it starts a new sparsebundle. This is not what I want.

How do I get Time Machine to continue backing up in the original machine directory?

I've tried

tmutil inerhitbackup <machine dir>

but this didn't work... Anything else I can do?


texts: Automatically receive the current billing cycle's data usage update from cellular providers at pre-determined frequency?

texts:
With AT&T, I can text *DATA# from my iPhone to get data usage for the current billing cycle.

Is there any way to do this programmatically, say I automatically receive text every Wednesday at 13:00?


texts: Streaming a movie to my iPhone 3GS through ITunes

texts:
Is there any way to stream a video from my iTunes library to my iPhone 3GS? I have a couple of videos sitting in the 'Movies' folder of my iTunes, but when I start up my iPhone iPod application, it doesn't show anything in the 'Video' tab. What am I doing wrong?

For completeness, I'm using a PC.


texts: How to find duplicate lines of code in Xcode

texts:
When I am making applications in Xcode, I sometimes find that I write duplicate code.

Is there a way in Xcode to find duplicate code in all files? I would like to know this because I would put the code into a function instead.


texts: Fast way to download a video from an URL

texts:
Is there an easy way to download a video from an URL to the device or to your Dropbox?

The only way I have managed to do that is using Mercury: manually copying the URL, going to the download manager and then pasting the URL there. Then, from Mercury I can save it to my camera roll or upload it to Dropbox.

Is there an easier way of doing this? Any way that doesn't involve copy/paste, either using Mercury or any other browse?


texts:
I am using OSX Mavericks on latest Mackbook Pro Retina.
After a week of intensive usage I have got some pain in my fingers because of the multi-fingers scrolling (two to scroll pages, three to switch between screens).

How can I scroll in applications without using 2 fingers-scroll? I know I can press 'Fn+Up/Down' in web-browsers, but how to scroll in Finder, Terminal, etc.?
Is there also any way to switch between virtual screens without using three-fingers?

PS: when scrolling using multi-touch, one has to keep 2 fingers floating over the surface of the trackpad - this after some time leads to the pain. On iPad it doesn't happen because its position is usually not vertical (when you keep it in another hand).


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I have a mid-2012 Retina Pro (loaded: 16GB RAM, 768GB SSD, etc.),  with annoying heat issues.

Whenever I'm doing anything GPU-intensive (games or CUDA simulations), after about 30 minutes, the chassis gets extremely hot (enough so that my hands sweat if hovering over the keyboard or typing) and the app in question either crashes with an exception, or silently exits. Of course, before that happens, the fans are running full speed.

(In this case, under Windows 7 via rEFInd.)

The game in question is Portal, which runs fine at full speed and resolution on this machine (not unexpected since the game is several years old), at least until it exits.

I'm guessing this is due to the video driver terminating the application to prevent damage to the machine, but I can't be sure.

Occasionally, even if not running that type of app - say, browsing the web or word processing - the machine will get very hot and the fans will kick in.

Is this typical behavior for this machine, or something wrong with this particular unit?
I've read that the cooling system has been redesigned in the new models. Is it effective enough to prevent these issues?

(Under OSX, I have the same issue on anything that requires the discrete GPU.)

Update

Specs:

Model MacBookPro10,1 (15" MacBook Pro with Retina Display)
Nvidia GT650M
16GB RAM
768GB SSD


texts: "citrix receiver" macOS menu bar delay on mouse pointer proximity

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I have this behaviour of Citrix Receiver on MacOs Mojave that when I take the mouse pointer close to the top of the screen. MacOs(parent OS) menubar shows up instantly. Which is very annoying considering that open new tab on browser inside citrix xendesktop is right at the top of the screen too.
I previously could set up a delay in showing menubar up, i.e. show after I keep the mouse pointer there for 5 seconds. However I can't find it any way to do it anymore.
Please help.


texts: launchctl starts my plist job much later than StartCalendarInterval

texts: I recently tried to switch to launched on my Mac Mini (10.7.5) from cron on a PC. I searched and think I have things set up right, but it seems that the scheduled script starts significantly after the requested time. Details at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32829026/using-launched-and-plist-starts-late. Thanks for guidance or experiments to try.


texts: Remove MacBook from Apple ID, is extended warranty still valid after that?

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I want to sell my old Retina MacBook.

I know how to erase/reinstall the Retina MackBook, but two more questions remain:

How can I unregister it from my Apple ID?
Is the extended Apple Care Warranty still valid after that?


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I own a MacBook Pro 2016 and I want to buy a second monitor with a 2k resolution that runs at 144Hz, is it possible? With what cable?
I've tried to look up on apple support and it says this:
Up to two displays with 5120-by-2880 resolution at 60Hz at over a billion colors
Up to four displays with 4096-by-2304 resolution at 60Hz at millions of colors
Up to four displays with 3840-by-2160 resolution at 60Hz at over a billion colors
Thunderbolt 3 digital video output

Native DisplayPort output over USB‑C
VGA, HDMI, and Thunderbolt 2 output supported using adapters (sold separately)
Still I cant find anythink about 2k resolution(2560 x 1440).
I want to buy a monitor with a 2k and to run on 144Hz. I don't know if my macbook suports this, if it suports what type of cable do I need?


texts: Automator: Decode Decode64 selection and display output in a new TextEdit window

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I would like to display a service in a context menu for a selected text which is a base64 string. The service has to decode it to string with a base64 via terminal script and display an output in a new TextEdit window.
I have a service in an Automator app which has a script shell with input as arguments and command:
"$@" | base64 --decode

There is a connected "New TextEdit document action" to the shell script.
This display empty window
If I change the command to pbpaste | base64 --decode and I will copy a base64 string to clipboard then the service works correctly.
How to pipeline the input argument, which is a base64 selected string, to 'base64 --decode' command?


texts: What does the lock icon on the 'Get Info' screen do?

texts:
In OS X there is a lock icon in the lower right of the Get Info screen.  What is this icon called?  What does clicking this icon do?

I am running on an account with administrator access. I have the ability to change permissions of some folders (one on my desktop) but not others (one in the Applications folder).  The "lock" is locked in both cases.  When I tried to Terminal → su → chmod the folder in Applications I still had no luck, until I pressed the 'lock' button.


texts: Pages: Make auto dash to break a word to new line (hyphenation-Greek)

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How can I make Pages to auto-correct my text at the end of the line and break the last word to fill all the line like LaTex does. I have Hyphenation check but when I writing greek it doesn't working...

For example:

  Once in a while we all need some kind of document, it may be a busi-
  ness plan presentation....(continue)


texts: Select a menu item in AppleScript without using "System Events" in 10.9 Mavericks

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I was just answering another question and was reminded of a new "feature" in Mavericks.

I used to have a number of small Automator Services that took no input but did something useful when tied to a keystroke. The perfect example was one to bring the Terminal to the front. Some of these required selecting a menu item in the application brought to the front such as Bring All to Front.

Now it seems you need to grant "accessability" to every single app so that a universal keystroke will work if the Service uses the System Events AppleScript library.

Anyone know a fix for this?


texts: How long are text messages saved in the iCloud server?

texts: ..and how can I get rid of them before they are subpoenaed?


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Every time I connect my iPad, iTunes wants to back it up. I don't want to back it up, I just want to transfer some files into an app.

This is with the Windows version of iTunes and I keep aborting the back up, because it's very slow. I want iTunes to stop auto-backing it up, is there a setting for that?


texts: How to let htop display all columns correctly when using the Homebrew Terminal profile?

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I've installed htop with :

brew install htop

But when I run it with sudo htop, the user column is not fully displayed. Some parts are missing.

How to display it correctly?

P.S.: I'm using the Homebrew Terminal profile.


texts: Cannot SSH from OS X Mavericks to Solaris server

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Well, this is embarrassing. It was a case sensitive issue. Prior to posting the -v output on this site, and probably due to looking at this problem for too long, I forgot the fundamental rule of case sensitivity !! Was trying to log into the Solaris server using an all lower-case user name. The user id on the Mac has an u/c alpha first character (remainder is l/c). Tried it and it worked.
Just need to find a hole deep enough now but thank you to all who tried to assist.


texts: SSH No Longer Working After Sierra Update

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I'm trying to ssh into a remote server using the format:

user@ip -i ~/.ssh/path/to/key

and I get the following error:

/etc/ssh/ssh_config: line 55: Bad configuration option: gssapikeyexchange
/etc/ssh/ssh_config: line 56: Bad configuration option: gssapitrustdns
/etc/ssh/ssh_config: terminating, 2 bad configuration options

Connecting to a server without an SSH key doesn't work either.

Thanks.


texts: How to expand SD Card disk size (clone smaller SD Card into Larger one)

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I am trying to clone the content of my 16GB SD card onto a 64GB SD Card.

What I tried first was to just copy all the files from the 16 to the 64 manually. This did not work out, the tool using the card could not use the card anymore. So I did following:

Create .dmg file from 16GB SD Card.
Restore .dmg onto my 64GB SD Card.
Boot up the 64GB SD Card
= works like a charm

BUT unfortunately it also "shrink" my 64GB card to 16...

Here is what I get typing diskutil list:

/dev/disk3 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *62.5 GB    disk3
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 UNTITLED                15.8 GB    disk3s1

So as you can see there is 62.5GB on the partition Card. How can I expand the 1: DOS_FAT_32 UNTITLED to gain more space, like 60 or so?

Thank you!

€: I read somewhere that I can copy the image of the 16gb into the image of the 64 with asr --source UNTITLED16.dmg --target n/UNTITLED64.dmg --erase but that gives me "n/UNTITLED64.dmg" is not a volume. Could not validate target - No such file or directory :(

€€: As suggested by comments I tried copying things using cp and also rsyncit did not help, it’s just the same result as manual copying of files.
Then I also tried Disk Utility > Image > Resize but unfortunately it did not work either, I get: The selected disk image can not be resized. Operation not permitted. Even if I add public read-write permission :(
Same thing using sudo hdiutil resize -size 50G /path/to/image.dmg gives me hdiutil: resize: failed. Operation not permitted (1)...


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Hi I am using Google Chrome on my mac Version Version 55.0.2883.95 (64-bit)
and my mac running on 10.11.6 (15G1004) OSX EI Captain.

I can see chrome auto filling my passwords when I login to sites. But When I want to see my passwords, I am not able to see anything in the password list. Any idea how to fix it?


texts: No "Generate an app-specific password" section in my Apple ID

texts:
I can't reproduce what is described in this Cnet article.

Here is my screenshot.


texts: Why is Mission Control lagging when using the discrete GPU in Mavericks?

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I just switched to Mavericks (10.9.4) from the latest Mountain Lion and noticed that my screen, especially noticeable with Mission Control, lags a bit when using the discrete GPU.

I've recorded my screen and uploaded a video to show the problem.

I switch to the dedicated card using an utility called gfxCardStatus, but using the "official" method through System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> High performance yields the same result.
Additionally my mouse speed seems to be bit lower when using the dedicated GPU. This is not visible in the video.

I'm on a 15 inch Mid 2009 MacBook Pro 5,3 with an integrated GeForce 9400M card and a dedicated GeForce 9600M GT. All worked fine before on Mountain Lion. The Mavericks system requirements state that my laptop is supported.

I've tinkered around and found that the GPU that is working on startup functions correctly. So if I restart while the discrete GPU is used all works fine and switching to the integrated GPU now yields in the screen lagging as shown in the video above. Switching the GPU back to the one that was in use during startup gives smooth graphics.

How can I find the origin of this problem? How can I solve it?


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I'd like to move my .bash_profile to Dropbox to have my custom Terminal functions available on all my Macs. Is this possible and are there possible implications?

For example I have a command for doing a git add and commit in one go:

function gax() {
    git add .
    git commit -m "$1"
}

I've been unable to find any information about this.


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On Lion (from memory, and I can't check anymore) this method:

open a one page PDF doc2 (with Preview),
open a one page PDF doc1 (with Preview),
drag thumbnail from doc1 onto doc2,
save as (⌘⌥⇧S) onto doc3

was an easy way to make:

doc3 = doc1 + doc2

or in Unix talk:

cat doc1 doc2 >doc3

Apparently (fixes appreciated) since Mountain Lion this simple receipe doesn't work anymore.

What is the easy way to achieve such a basic operation for PDF files:

given 2 PDF documents doc1 and doc2,
I want to get doc3 = doc1 + doc2,
with as simple an application as Preview,
within a few seconds of click, click, click….

I need this basic function for users running Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite.


texts:
I keep the option to auto-join preferred networks on wake.

However, after I reconfigured my router at home, my home network simply ignores that option.

I have already tried fixing HD permissions on Disc Utility. Didn't work.
What else can I do?

P.S.: The config is still working at work.


texts: Disable sparsebundle backups on Network-attached time machine (Lion)?

texts:
I am running OS X Lion/10.7.4 and have set up a network disk hosted on an Ubuntu server using directions I found online. Time Machine recognizes the disk and backs up to it. However it backs up as sparsebundle "bands" files. I would like to be able to read the backed-up files from the Ubuntu server.

Is there any way to tell Time Machine to back up to regular files instead of using sparsebundle/bands files?


texts: Visibile App Windows Minimize when I click on dock icons

texts: So if i have "Program A" open and click on "Program B"... "Pro A" windows minimize and i get "Program B"... if i click on the "Prog A" dock icon... "Prog B" windows minimize!  Please help.  I have tried changing the Mission Control settings but this is infuriating.


texts: macOS Calendar.app Duration-of-Day Preference Nonresponsive

texts:
macOS 11.3.1, Calendar 11.0, mid-2015 iMac
I have Calendar's preferences set to display a day beginning at 5:00 a.m. and ending at 9:00 p.m. thus:

However, both Calendar's Day and Week tabs display a calendar starting at 12:00 a.m. and ending at 12:00 a.m. This is 24 hours rather than the 17 hours I've set.
Restarting the app and rebooting the computer and rebooting the computer in safe mode each has no effect. In all other respects, Calendar operates as I expect.
How might I get the computer to display the specified day duration?


texts: AppleID Two-factor Authentification with Email address

texts:
Suppose I have 2FA activated for AppleID, and I lose my phone and I need to log in with my AppleID. This becomes further complicated when I travel to another country and have to use another, local phone number for some time.
I wish I could use my email-address for 2FA instead of my phone number.
Is there any way I can log in with my AppleID if I don't have access to my phone number?


texts: Mail.app keeps crashing: Got EXPUNGE but EXISTS is already 0

texts:
Mail.app on my High Sierra (it also did this on Sierra too) keeps crashing. In the error report I see that it always crashes with the same error:

Got EXPUNGE but EXISTS is already 0.

What does this mean and how do I avoid crashes?


texts: Issue with clean install of macOS on early 2015 MacBook Pro

texts:
I tried to install FreeBSD on my SSD on my mac since I was guessing they should be working, but there no drivers for macos and I decided that I should go back at Big Sur. I formatted the disk via the freebsd installer to the ZFS file system, but when I opened Apple's BIOS, I wasnt able to see the SSD there, therefore I could not go back to macos.
Is there a way to fix that? I am guessing that the format of the disk is unknown to the bios so I probably need to format it in a type that it "understands" it so to say.
By the way, I tried both ubuntu and freebsd and they are working, they could detect the SSD and install their components.


texts: Alert me when a certain app/process isn't running

texts:
Is it easily possible to have some sort of cron job or something run on my Mac that alerts / notifies me when a certain program isn't running?

I use an app last.fm, and since it doesn't run in my dock I don't notice that the process might not be running any more.


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I'm looking for an easy way to create a video/audio/text diary. The problem so far is that almost no app uploads the video to a cloud service like Evernote (would be my preferred option) and delete the video locally. This is in terms of capturing apps.
On the diary side. Almost all diary apps want to have all of their content locally as well as in the cloud. This means unnecessary wasted space.

1 Second Everyday promised to work on this feature ever since its introduction, but they never delivered. Also the videos need to be one second short. I'd prefer to record video at any length.

There was one app that uploads directly to the cloud, but I forgot its name.

Anything that would help me make a cloud-based video/audio diary would help. Thank you!


texts: iPhone 5C Messages crashing after showing no messages

texts:
When I open my iPhone 5C Messages, all that appears is a white screen that is frozen. It will close on it's own in a minute or so and it still appears as being open when you check to see what applications are open.

I have received two messages that I can not read or get to. How to fix the Messages?


texts: Why doesn't the keyboard appear to type name or number in Contacts?

texts:
I can't add a new contact as keyboard doesn't appear in the Contacts. I have deleted email account from Settings. Also the Contacts service is on in iCloud.

I have an iPhone 4 on iOS 7.


texts: How to find & delete an obscure file of which I only know the name?

texts:
Sophos detected a trojan which it cannot remove on Mac OS 10.4 and it says to remove it manually. Problem is, it gives the file name as xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx where the x's are hex digits. No directory path, no nothin—just the digits.

How do I find and delete this file?


texts:
I recently migrated my macbook 12" to a macbook pro (touchbar). I used the migration assistant to transfer a backup from the old mac to the new one. At first all was successful apart from a slight issue with the incompatible OS version between the two machines. (I had to update before migrating)

I am running Sierra(10.12.5 (16F73)) on the new machine. I am now facing a number of issues with the machine, I would guess its a permission thing. I think but cannot be certain that vmware fusion has something to do with the issue because it was the last program I tried to install from the old backup before seeing issues. (I had to kill the installation)

safari opens and appears to load a page, but just sits there - no matter what the url is. Chrome and Firefox work perfectly well and other programs do not have an issue getting an internet connection.
mac store updates do not work, when I click update on an app, I see: "We could not complete your update. Unknown error"

I noticed that the owner of my application (located at /Library/*) is as follows:

drwxr-xr-x@   3 root          wheel    102 30 Jun  2016 Safari.app

Should root own these applications?
How can I debug this issue with safari and the app store updates?
Any thoughts what could cause behaviour like this?

So far, I have tried, neither worked:

Repairing disk permissions using the 'first aid' tool in disk utility.
Reinstall OS (restart, cmd+r, Reinstall OS)

Thanks


texts: Issue installing BasicTeX with Cask under OS X

texts:
I followed the instructions (that I could understand) to install BasicTeX from Cask and this was the output I got:

basictex staged at '/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/basictex/latest' (107M)

I see this:

○ → ls -l /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/basictex/latest/
total 219936
-rw-r--r--  1 sunitjoshi  admin  112605547 Jan 13 07:28 BasicTeX.pkg

And this under ~/Applications; i.e. no BasicText.app

○ → ls ~/Applications/
Chrome Apps.localized emacs                 test.js

Am I missing something here?


texts:
Is Apple slowing down older iPads too?

Apple said it's slowing down older iPhones which you can disable under battery health, but I think Apple is slowing down iPads too. I watched this  https://youtu.be/Mpq6Ib1IVdA?t=7m49s YouTube video today in which the reviewer said that Apple has slowed down his 2 years old iPad Pro 12.9 inch.

If this is true then how can I find out if Apple has slowed my iPad pro too?


texts:
I have a number of files:

> $ ls
FleurInputSchema.xsd inp.xml              out                  usage.json
fort.77              juDFT_times.json     out.xml

and I would like to delete some of then, but not every files is there everytime. So I made an alias for

rm broyd  broyd.7 cdn* *.dat *.npy stars wkf2  fleurinputschema.xsd judft_times juDFT_times.json  inf out  out.xml  usage.json struct.xsf juDFT_times FleurInputSchema.xsd mixing_history* 2> /dev/null
zsh: no matches found: cdn*

This works fine on linux using zsh aswell. On mac it doesn't even start the rm-command, after it can't complete the cdn-wildward. How do I get zsh to ignore the missing files?


texts:
How can I separate mailboxes completely in Mavericks's Mail application?

I don't want any of this integrated inbox/folders with the same name feature. I just want clean/separated mailboxes with their folder structures. Its nice for people who have few accounts and small number of mails. It is not a "smart feature" when you get 135,000 messages of inbox/sent/archive folders from 18 different boxes mixed in 3 folders.


texts:
for some reason there exist this file in my desktop

When I move it to the bin and try to empty I get this message:

I have also tryied using the terminal:
sudo rm -rf Install\ macOS\ Catalina.app/

But when I do that I get:
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Frameworks/OSInstallerSetup.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/IAESD.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/IAOSPersonalization.framework/Versions/A/_CodeSignature: Directory not empty
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Frameworks/OSInstallerSetup.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/IAESD.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/IAOSPersonalization.framework/Versions/A: Directory not empty
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Frameworks/OSInstallerSetup.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/IAESD.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/IAOSPersonalization.framework/Versions: Directory not empty
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Frameworks/OSInstallerSetup.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/IAESD.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/IAOSPersonalization.framework: Directory not empty
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Frameworks/OSInstallerSetup.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/IAESD.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/IAPackageKit.framework: Directory not empty
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Frameworks/OSInstallerSetup.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/IAESD.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks: Directory not empty
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Frameworks/OSInstallerSetup.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/IAESD.framework/Versions/A: Directory not empty
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Frameworks/OSInstallerSetup.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/IAESD.framework/Versions: Directory not empty
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Frameworks/OSInstallerSetup.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/IAESD.framework: Directory not empty
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Frameworks/OSInstallerSetup.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks: Directory not empty
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Frameworks/OSInstallerSetup.framework/Versions/A: Directory not empty
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Frameworks/OSInstallerSetup.framework/Versions: Directory not empty
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Frameworks/OSInstallerSetup.framework: Directory not empty
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Frameworks: Directory not empty
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents: Directory not empty
rm: Install macOS Catalina.app: Directory not empty


texts: Where are the dictionaries of Mac OS X's built in password assistant?

texts:
Mac OS has a built in password generator. It is a little bit hidden behind the key icon in System Preferences / Accounts / Change password. The memorable option is quite nice as it even conjugates words (my screenshot shows the German version):

My question is: Where does this helper get its words and even variants of words? Is there a complex dictionary where it can look them up for the specific language?


texts: Is it possible to find the RGB values of the "Apple Brown" highlight color Apple introduced in Yosemite?


texts: Is my system vulnerable to Apple's new password-in-clear-text bug?

texts:
With the latest Lion security update, Mac OS X 10.7.3, Apple has accidentally turned on a debug log file outside of the encrypted area that stores the user’s password in clear text.

How can I determine whether my system if affected by this issue? If so, can I work around it, and also determine which users’ passwords have been exposed?


texts: I tried downloading apps with my new Apple ID and it asked me to review it. After filling in the information it shows an error and asks me to insert a billing address with atmost 70 letters or numbers. My address that I mentioned is correct. How do I get past this?


texts: I have a .pkg file for Malwarebytes on my computer. I can't send it to the trash nor delete it in any other manner. I would appreciate any suggestions.


texts: How can I remotely view my Apple TV from my computer?

texts: I would like to be able to view my Apple TV from my computer remotely (similar to Smart View app by Samsung, but in reverse) so I can use an automation tool. What tools are available that allow me to accomplish this?


texts: Do I need to get a license to use OS X system font in my app?

texts:
I recently completed my first cocoa app and want to publish it (not via Mac App Store), I am using system font in my app and not bundling any font with my app itself.

Do I need to get permission to use the default system font in my app?


texts: Our iPad is asking for a 4 digit passcode that it never asked for before

texts: Our iPad is asking for a 4 digit code that it never asked for before. We updated several apps at one time. The iPad said it couldn't update them with 47% battery power, so we plugged it in and ran the updates again.  Now it asks for a 4 digit pin which it never asked for before. We didn't "accidentally" set a pin, and no one else has had access to the iPad.  We have tried several 4 digit codes that we "might" have set, none that work.  What do we do now?


texts: Which MacOS (Sierra) Services are spy services/daemons from Apple?

texts:
Does anyone have a list of spy services/daemons (colloquially known as "junk")? I know this question could be interpreted as primarily opinion-based, but I'd like to keep this thing objective, so here are the parameters:

Services are quantifiable: sudo launchctl list

Defininition of spy services
Services that track

browsing history
location (I know Address Book or Maps needs to get the location when planning routes, but besides that?)
installed applications

Feel free to specify things I have forgotten in the comments

Notes
It would be useful to know this list to remove them from the list of startup services/daemons.
e.g. launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/nameofagent.plist


texts:
I installed gcc via homebrew with no errors.

brew install homebrew/versions/gcc49
brew unlink gcc49 && brew link gcc49

But when I try to run gcc, clang is used instead.

~$:gcc --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 7.0.0 (clang-700.1.76)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin15.0.0
Thread model: posix

Edit:

~$:type gcc
gcc is /usr/bin/gcc
~$:type /usr/bin/gcc
/usr/bin/gcc is /usr/bin/gcc
~$:echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin


texts: Why does launchd suddenly complain about error 78: Function Not Implemented? [long]

texts:
I have an old 2010 MBA which runs High Sierra. It is located at a condo which I visit for a few days each month. The machine runs 24/7 mostly to upload webcam photos to a host every four minutes, to assemble and upload a time-lapse video every 24 hours and to perform routine maintenance tasks. Here is the webcam page: Cha Am Cam

All of this is done with bash shell scripts that are run via launchd with the help of Lingon.

When I arrived last week I discovered that the USB camera had failed because the housekeeper who had cleaned the place just before our arrival had crushed the USB cable when she locked the balcony door. I ordered a new cable which took a few days to arrive from Bangkok.

After I received the new USB cable, the images produces by the webcam were highly variable. Some were 100% black and others were 100% white. Others were horribly washed out. Sometimes the binary which grabs the images, imagesnap, would become non-responsive. I tried to fix the latter problem using timeout. That seemed to work. Oddly, as time passed, the images produced by the camera steadily improved. No more all-black or all-white images. The exposure on the useable images also normalized. After a day, everything was back to normal. Can a digital camera heal itself? (Rhetorical question.)

One morning, after observing a string of successful image grabs and uploads, I hopped on my bicycle and went out for coffee. When I got back I was shocked to see that about  a half hour after I left the uploads stopped. In fact, the machine had stopped grabbing images at all. A little checking revealed that launchd was refusing to run the image capture and upload script with error 78 - Function Not Implemented. How helpful. Odd, because the script ran fine from the command line.

I figured that some change that I made to the script must have caused this. But, if so, how did it continue to run for half an hour or so after I'd left for coffee? I poured over the script and could find nothing obvious. I happened to have a backup of all scripts that I made last December. I copied the backup script to the MBA and it started to run right away.

I made the same edits to the backup script as I had made to the original. The script continued to run with no problems. Mystery.

The next morning I checked to see if the video upload worked. It did not. Same launchd error: 78 - Function Not Implemented. Now, this is a script that has run, unchanged, as it is, once a day for several years. Almost never fails and when I does it's always due to a network error.

So, I copied the absolutely identical backup and, voila, it ran just fine. Mystery.

I decided to check some other scripts. I found about six that also started failing to run at the same time as the image capture and upload script. These are all simple scripts that run regularly and have done so, without change, for years. Why did they all suddenly stop and all about the same time all due to the same launchd error? Why were other scripts not affected?

I copied over the backups of all the failing scripts and they all ran right away.

I'd love to have an explanation as to how this happened and what I can do to prevent it from happening again.


texts: The graphics card on my old MacBook Pro broke. How do I transfer my files if I cannot see anything?

texts: I have a 2017 MacBook Pro and the graphics card broke leaving me unable to see anything. Everything else still works. I hadn’t backed anything up because I’m an idiot and now I don’t know how or if it’s possible to transfer my files over to the new MacBook. Any help is greatly appreciated:)


texts: Waking display from terminal, general waking

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This is a two part question.  A practical, "how to" question is first, and then I ask for configuration suggestions.

First, I put my displays to sleep at night, and I would like to be able to wake the display remotely.  Is there a command line utility I can use to wake it via SSH?  I know about WakeOnLan, but that seems like overkill.

Second, the whole reason for me wanting to wake my display remotely has to do with how Lion's power savings settings changed.  The Apple infrared remote no longer wakes the display.  This is a huge deal for a machine I originally bought to be a combined desktop/home theater pc, since it defeats half of its purpose.  So, does anybody have any ideas/suggestions what to do about this?  This is open ended, I know.


texts: Is there any way of change current window in OS X?

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Coming from Windows I am missing some features like changing current window with a combination of keys. I mean, I know that you can switch app with cmd + tab but sometimes you want to go to another browser window or something like that. I know you can use gestures in order to display all current app windows but I would like to do it with a key or something like that.

Thanks


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For a long while now I've experienced USB devices intermittently disconnecting on my Macbook Pro Retina 2012 (El Capitan 10.11.2).

I'm currently using a Targus 7 port USB 3 hub (http://targus.com/au/usb-30-7-port-hub-with-fast-charging) but this problem existed when I was using an older USB hub. I bought this one in the hope it might resolve this problem, but it didn't.

This USB hub is connected to its power adaptor.

From memory this problem also existed before El Capitan update.

For work I use Microsoft Lync for Mac, and I sometimes notice than when a new instant message arrives, my keyboard, mouse and headset will disconnect. But they also sometimes disconnect without this trigger.

To reconnect them, bizarrely, i seem to need to unplug and replug each device in 3 times specifically.

It's very frustrating and inefficient for my workflow. Just wondering if there are any suggestions or recommendations as to how I can troubleshoot or resolve this?

Following are screenshots of the USB map (two separate screenshots as the contents of the USB 3.0 Bus details page didn't fit in one screen)


texts: Can't access recovery mode because I deleted everything from HD

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My Macbook PRO 13 inch of 2011 is booting to a black screen, i was trying to recovery it but the original HD was failing to install the OS, so i installed in a pen drive, then i erased everything in the HD, and then i accidentally erased everything in the pen drive, so i don't have anything in the pen drive and anything in the HD. I also have a fresh SSD, but when i try to startup with this new SSD, i only see a black screen.

I already try things like:

Remove the battery cable
Press Command + Option + R + P
Press Command + OPtion + R
Press the power button 10 seconds
Press the power button 30 seconds

Also, before the black screen, i see this lines like old television, it is fast, but they always appear. Perhaps the problem could be the screen?

Thank you.