texts: Is there a more-accurate indicator of an app download's progress than what appears in Launchpad?

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While downloading an application from the Mac App Store, you are presented with a progress indicator in Launchpad, like so:

For a large install (like Xcode, as shown) this doesn't provide a terribly useful picture of the download's performance (how fast it's going / how much longer it's likely to take).

Is there any way (perhaps via a command-line tool) to get a more-accurate look at the progress of an App Store download? Something more along the lines of, say, 585,789 Kb / 1,768,231 Kb Downloaded?


texts: Search finder for all photos in a given folder?

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Prior to iOS using the HEIC image format (I'm aware this can be turned off) I used to be able to search for all images in a given folder taken on my iPhone, by using the search feature of macOS finder and searching for all JPG files as below.

But now I can't do that so easily as there is a mixture of image formats. Is there a way I can search for "kinds = all photos"?


texts: Mail.app attachments show as icon or document content (inline)

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I get my faxes sent to me by email as a PDF file. Sometimes it shows in the email as an icon with the filename.pdf. Sometimes it shows the content of the PDF within the email (i.e., you can read it in the email).

I know that when you attach a PDF file in an email you are going to send it shows in the email as the actual PDF file. If you right click on the PDF file you can make it display as an icon.

Is there a reason some attached PDFs show as an icon and some show the contents of the PDF? Is there a setting that will force all attachments to be display the content of the actual document?


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We're trying to transfer large files from NY to LA, from one Mac to another.

Both sites have 100/100 mbps internet. Both report full speed at www.speedtest.net.

But we've tried AFP, SMB and SFTP, and can't get it to go any faster than 20mbps.

Tested with iperf -- with parallel connections got up to 16-20 mbps.

However, we are doing this over a LogMeIn Hamachi VPN. Does that throttle/limit the speed?


texts: How to dedupe/merge contacts from different sources?

texts:
I have Google Contacts and Office 365 People both on my iPhone/iPad. Whenever a contact is both on Google and Office, they will appear as two different persons in my iOS Contacts app. If I want to update any information about the contact, it appears that I'll have to do that twice.

Is there a solution to this problem?

Ideally, I'd like to have ALL my contacts on Google Contacts, and merely SOME of them on Office 365 People. I'd like the latter to be in sync with the former. I'd love them to show just a single card per person in iOS Contacts.


texts: External Seagate Hard drive for Mac - Compatibility

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I am looking to purchase a Seagate External Hard Drive for my MacBook Air.

The products claims it works only with PC (windows), however, I have read multiple places that I can just format the drive and it will work fine with a mac.

1) Is this a correct statement. I assume it is but I am new to OSX and like to check.

2) What is the process to format an external drive? (Using OS X 10.9)


texts: Why does my Finder window close when I eject an external drive?

texts:
Why does Finder window close when I eject an external drive sometimes?  It's still in the menu system, but no open window to toggle to.  I was not in any folder on said external drive, but in the Documents folder - I am not even in a folder on the external drive being ejected..

I don't want it to close

Please advise.


texts: iTunes Connect: How can I generate promo codes for Pro apps?

texts:
I used to get an option to generate promo codes however since the new redesign which Apple did for the iTunes Connect, I haven't been able to find that option.

Where is it hidden?


texts: Apple Activity March Challenge can anyone explain calculation?

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The March Challenge in the iOS Activity app is making no sense. At the beginning of the month it started out telling me I needed 719 Calories a day. And my average at the start of the month was:

(Never mind the fact that I'm in Australia and my local setting is kilojoules, and that it should localise like every other app in the world does. Has no trouble showing me activity in kilojoules but the challenge can't show kilojoules?)
Obviously that figure is wrong. First mysterious number right there. 20,263 kilojoules, would that even be possible?
I decided I wanted to get this badge so I converted the required daily average (719 calories) to kilojoules and got 3008.3. So I set the daily move goal to 3000 and planned to exceed it. And I have been, getting to around 4500 a day. So if I exceed the daily average goal the calculated average should be trending UP, right?
Not so. Now it tells me I am under the daily required average (today it reports 699) and the figure is trending down though I am still exceeding it by 50% a day and have been well above it all month.
Possible explanations I have considered....

the USA uses a different kind of calories from the rest of the world
and my conversion of cal-kj is wrong (seems ridiculous but U.S.
gallons are different to imperial gallons)
this challenge is as broken as February's
the decreasing daily figure shown is how much I would need to every day of the rest of the month? But then the ridiculously high figure
from the start of the month makes no sense. -

So can anyone explain this?


texts: Mounted and working disk partition reports as "no filesystem", Spotlight won't index

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TL/DR: encrypted separate disk partition for /Users won't index

After installing too many junky apps, especially system monitors - I decided to reinstall.  I grabbed a USB external 1TB drive, backed up my main internal (815 GB used of 1 TB), and erased it.

I partitioned my internal drive and reinstalled macOS Sierra on the smaller main partition.  Then after googling for the best way to do it, I added the second partition as /Users to /etc/fstab using vifs. After some undesired juggling of accounts and locations - including putting an admin account elsewhere on the primary partition - my user account was working fine under /Users on the secondary partition.

Then I clicked on the disk in Finder and selected 'Encrypt.'

Well, not completely.  Spotlight simply won't touch the /Users partition.

Here is my diskutil list output:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Beornholm               62.9 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS                         62.4 GB    disk0s4
   5:          Apple_CoreStorage                         873.8 GB   disk0s5
   6:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s6

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            Beornholm              +62.5 GB    disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 B9E46FBB-B968-7BF4-4F97-13776548928A

                                 Unencrypted

diskutil info says it has no file system:

<snip>
   Volume Name:              Not applicable (no file system)
   Mounted:                  Yes
   Mount Point:              /Users
   File System:              None
</snip>

I'm not sure the encryption was successful. The Finder "Encrypt" option is still there.

Can someone help me figure out how I screwed this up?  I don't really want to start from scratch, unless you have an affordable option for fast data transfer on a 2011 MBP with USB 2.0.


texts: How do I use Mac's Preview application text speech feature?

texts: How could I let Preview start speaking a selected paragraph? I found the speech menu item in the edit menu but this starts speaking from the beginning of the document!


texts: Does downgrading Lion to Snow Leopard also downgrade firmware?

texts:
Ever since I installed Lion I've had problems with wifi. Connections would drop, and once wifi was turned off it wouldn't turn back on. Now, I can't use it at all - it says "No hardware installed."

The same problem also exists in Windows on my Boot Camp partition, so I think it's a firmware or hardware issue. I'd like to fix it by downgrading to Snow Leopard, but would this also downgrade the wifi firmware?


texts: How to remove Disabled Software in macOS 11?

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I found three items in System Report. I've checked /Library/Extensions/, /Library/StagedExtensions and /private/var/db/Receipts. All related files has been deleted. But the three items persist after restarting.
How should I remove them?
OS: macOS 11.1


texts: Have Apps with Notification Center Support Use Growl on Lion

texts: I'm still on Lion, and recently noticed that a lot of my apps are being updated with Notification Center support. Since I'm not on Mountain Lion and therefore don't have Notification Center, I won't be able to use these new features. However, I do have Growl, and was wondering if there is some tweak or hack that I could use to forward these notifications to Growl instead. Thanks in advance!


texts: Where can I purchase Female Thunderbolt to HDMI cable?

texts: I have a Apple Thunderbolt Display 27 which I want to use on a Windows machine with only an HDMI port. So I basically need to cable which will have female Thunderbolt port in one side and male HDMI port in other side of the cable.


texts:
When I annotate a PDF file, the annotations are correctly saved and can be seen using iOS "files" when saved there.

But, when I upload the annotated PDF on the web, or by email, the annotations aren’t there anymore.

But, when saved again in "files", the annotations appears again.

How can I annotate a PDF using iOS preview, and share them by email to anyone who has or hasn’t iOS ?


texts: Is it possible to perform a factory reset on an old Apple iMac (OS X Snow Leopard) without a disk

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My mum's got an old Apple iMac from ca. 2009 which after 10 years is pretty much for it.

I'd like to wipe the computer to get rid of any personal data before we get rid of it. Just in case.

As an older machine, it's still running OS X Snow Leopard.

Unfortunately I don't have any of the install disks, because, well, I knew Mum was gonna get rid of the computer so I binned them when I was having a big sort out when I moved house. Call me stupid but I didn't exactly expect to need the install disk to uninstall it. But then I'd forgotten the old adage, if you want to lock yourself out of your house, make sure you keep your house keys with you at all times.


texts: What software is available for 3D diagrams and graphs?

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I'm looking for software to generate pretty 3D diagrams and graphics for scientific publications, for example something like this: http://www.123rf.com/photo_9355990_space-fill-ball-and-stick-models-of-methanol.html

Ideally, the software should also allow me to somehow allow me to place objects programmatically, if I would like 100s of spheres.


texts: TouchBar appears on the screen when clicked

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When I try to adjust the volume, the TouchBar appears on my screen. I tried to refresh the TouchBar agent by killing it, it doesn't work. And another problem about this issue is I cannot smoothly adjust the volume, I have to keep my finger on a certain point, because a circle shows up and it needs to be full before recognizing a press. It looks like a debug mode, I have no idea how this happened.

My setup is: 2017 MacBook Pro with macOS Sierra version 10.12.6

Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zzkg9l50bn5wlvl/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-30%20at%2010.21.47%20AM.png?dl=0


texts:
Obviously I'm online and able to connect to apple.com and other websites.
System Updates think I'm offline for some 2-trillion$ reason.

Is there a way to trigger a manual update?


texts: Notifications on dual monitors: how can I specify which monitor?

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I would like to have notifications on my left monitor and not my right monitor. It's hard to see them when I'm looking at the left monitor (since they're all the way on the right side and they're rather large monitors).

Is there any way to keep the screens in this order but have the notifications appear on the screen I want them to appear on?


texts: Can automation using AppleScript Copy Text From A Webpage Into a Text Editor app?

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As a first try at AppleScript I'm looking to automate a find command and some follow actions that would normally be user input.

Ultimately I want to automate adding lyrics to my iTunes library.  My first challenge is to tell Safari to search a webpage for a phrase, click on the link, and then copy the plain text on the page that comes up to the clipboard and then paste it into Text Editor.

I'm not sure how to tell Safari to command + F, paste a phrase from the clipboard, and then "click" the highlighted link.

I don't need a full script, but help getting started at a minimum

How would I do one or more parts of this automation?


texts: My Mac book pro 13.3 inch retina display August 2014, did not boot after a normal shut down. It gave sound on power on but after stays grey. I tried all options available on net CMD+C, C, SHIFT+CMD+V but no success.


texts: At some point I made copies of all the fonts in the System>Library folder. I would now like to delete those duplicates, which are not in use and are not in a System folder. But macOS (Mojave) won't let me because the copies inherited the protections of the originals. I'm not trying to change anything that's in the System folder itself. Any suggestions? Thank you.


texts: How to deduplicate iMovie files in "Original Media"?

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With each project, iMovie imports videos, images, and audio into an iMovie Library.imovielibrary. I want my originals in a separate folder, along with other originals that I didn't import into iMovie and others for which I use other tools such as ffmpeg, but I still want to keep the ability to edit and export projects. At the moment I have videos in two places and the iMovie library is a bloated 300 GB in a 1 TB drive.

How can I avoid duplicating video or other files in an iMovie library and save disk space?


texts: MBP trackpad/keyboard unresponsive after application crash

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Problem

I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro 13" (non-retina) equipped with 6GB RAM.
Recently, I have noticed that when an application crashes and Crash Reporter appears, the trackpad and keyboard do not function until about ten seconds later. All background tasks that were running at the time of the crash are still running.

This behaviour is extremely strange, and I'd like to know if:

Is this exclusive to my Mac, or is it a known issue?
Is there a way to fix it?

Extra details

The 6GB RAM was equipped in December, before this issue started for me.
I am running the release version of 10.8.3.
I have installed no Trackpad tweaks.


texts: My screen has a bunch of purple and cyan flickering bars on it. Does anyone know if there is a fix for this? I have tried resetting my nvram. I closed my lip for 15 minutes and then when I opened it, these lines appeared. I also run a diagnostics, but there were no hardware issues found.


texts:
After connecting VPN, I often have to flush DNS to get my private hosts to be found. I would do this

sudo discoveryutil mdnsflushcache; sudo discoveryutil udnsflushcaches

Now, after upgrading to Yosemite 10.10.4, I get

sudo: discoveryutil: command not found

So, discoveryutil is gone in 10.10.4? How can I flush DNS now?


texts:
I am importing thousands of photos off an SD card. About 15k images, mostly time-lapse. They are from different times so about 4 sets 3-4 images, I want to import each set as a separate album.
Scrolling that many images is a huge pain, can I automatically select or import based on date ranges?

Also, is importing just copying the files - could I use another application to copy based on date range instead? I do not know if the Photos Library is actually a directory structure?


texts: Toggle notification center's DoNotDisturb from terminal

texts: Is there any way to toggle it with i.e. osascript? I'm on Yosemite.


texts: I am having iPad mini 4. Does any Apple Pencil working with it ? If not then which is best alternative of it. Thanks.


texts:
I dropped my new iPhone into the Puget Sound, so I'm trying to use my old iPhone for now. I have a new SIM card installed, but I seem to be stuck in an iCloud loop.

In order to do pretty much anything on my phone, I have to be signed into iCloud. When I try to sign in, I get this error: Verification Failed: There was an error connecting to the Apple ID server.

According to this post, the solution seems to be to sign out and sign back in again. However, I can't sign out without turning off "Find My iPhone", which asks for a password and gives me an error.

I also tried resetting my phone, both through the settings menu and through iTunes, but I have the same issue.


texts: iPhone 6s with iOS 12.4 not connecting to MacBook Pro mid2015 with macOS 10.14.6

texts:
I am using an iPhone 6s with iOS 12.4 and a MacBook Pro mid2015 with macOS 10.14.6. Since recently (I am not exactly sure when it started), I cannot charge the phone with my computer anymore. As soon as I plug the phone in, it will play the charging sound repeatedly. The right-hand side port sometimes works, the lefthand side port never works. When I connect my old iPhone 5 (using the same cable), it charges without any issues. My iPad mini 4 shows the same issue.

Sometimes the "Do you trust this computer" setting flashes on the phone and disappears before I can click anything.

How can I fix this?

Update 1

Sometimes I get the Software Update dialogue in macOS. After approx. 2 minutes it shows the following:

Update 2

For some reason the issue disappeared for a while but is back now. Disabling "Settings" > "Touch ID & Passcode" > "USB Accessoires" seems like it makes the problem a bit less bad, but not go away.

Update 3

This is driving me crazy. I upgraded to Mojave 10.14.3 mostly to get rid of the issue. It persists. Some more random information: Before logging in (Filevault pre-boot authentication), the phone will charge fine. Only when a user account is loaded, the issue appears. The likelihood of a successful connection increases with the battery state of the iPhone. Workaround 2 in my answer below suggest that this a "Trust issue" from the iPhone's side. I suppose the solution will have to be hidden somewhere there...

What I tried so far (will update):

Reset Privacy settings on iPhone
Different (original, almost new Apple) lightning cables
"Disable unless needed" option for USB
Remove and add "iPhone USB" in Network Settings
Change and remove Thunderbold Bridge in Network Settings
SMC reset (thanks Jack3231), PRAM reset
Upgrade to latest iOS 12.4 and MacOS 10.14.6


texts: Can a Mac enter sleep mode on schedule when a third party app tries to prevent sleep?

texts: There’s a third party software I have running on my Mac in the menu bar at all times, but for some reason it’s preventing my Mac mini from sleeping or locking the screen altogether. I contacted the company about this issue, but just in case I won’t be able to resolve it with them, is there a way I can prevent a Mac app from preventing it from sleeping, without quitting the app altogether?


texts: How is the timeout for a wrong firmware password determined?

texts:
I noticed that when you set a firmware password on your Mac and you enter it incorrectly, the timeout before you can enter a new password keeps increasing with every wrong attempt.
I was wondering: How does a Mac determine the timeout for a wrong firmware password? Would it allow unlimited tries?


texts: Splitting Zip Files Based on Number of Files, Not Size

texts:
I'm looking to setup an automater script on my Mac.

On a daily basis I'm compressing thousands of files into groups of 75 files by manually selecting the 75 and compressing them.

Is there a way to setup an automater script to where I can highlight 1000 images and run a script that would take 75 files at a time and zip them together without me having to manually select the 75 files?


texts: Sound constantly dissapears. Macbook Big Sur. Coreaudio stops working

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After the last update to Big Sur 11.3 I started experience issue with sound.
My speakers work only for a few seconds after reboot, opening lid after a while.
The very first music\video has sound, but after a while, when paused or next sound file - sound disspears
I found the problem is common in google and relates to Coreaudiod process. I tried many solutions, Safe mode, NPRAM reset, etc, but only one works to some proof. When I run below command to  reboot driver, sound appears again, but also for a moment, then disappears in a few sec. Effect is intermittent. And I don't want to do it every time. Is there permanent solution? What happens to coreaudiod process, why it constantly fails?
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.audio.coreaudiod && sudo launchctl start com.apple.audio.coreaudiod


texts: How to use 2013 iMac as second monitor with Windows 10 PC

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I have a late 2013 iMac with Thunderbolt port (no mini display port) that I want to use as a second monitor for a new PC running Windows 10.

I have parallels on the iMac but no Miracast so don't seem to be able to use Target Display Mode.

Are there any cables/adapters I can use to connect the two?

Thanks.


texts: Edit default alert in subscribed calender

texts:
I am currently subscribed to myasics ics running calender which shows my training plan. Its default alert is set to one week before.

I want to change that to two alerts. One being the day before and one on the day. I cant seem to edit this default.

How do I alter it?


texts: I updated my iPhone to iOS 10.0.2 & got an email saying my AppleID was used

texts:
Was this from the update? Or was I hacked?

The thing is...I checked the current devices logged in and it was only my iphone with the same divide ID and same operating system. It also said the time that my AppleID was used was from my memory around the same time as the update.

So it seems like no one else has hacked into my AppleID.

Is it normal to trigger that kind of alert after doing a normal update?


texts: Unable to boot/install any Mac OS/OS X system from/to SSD on my Macbook. Can't read any bootable USB device

texts: I've got a Macbook Pro Late 2012 with a Samsung EVO 750 and 16 gb of ram. I've worked with it for a year with no issues. Two weeks ago, it suddendly got really really slow (APFS on High Sierra). I couldn't even open the Apple Logo menu in order to shut it down or maybe logoff. It took like 2/3 minutes or more to open a Finder window. After some reboots the Dock couldn't even load the App Icons, question marks everywhere. So I decided to create a bootable High Sierra USB drive, backup my data first (with Paragon APFS for Windows) and then reinstall the system on the disk. Here come the troubles. It looks like once I booted the USB drive, the Macbook saves a flag in its cache, so that the second time I reboot the laptop and open up the Startup Menu there are no USB disks despite the fact they're plugged in. After waiting like 24 hours the "cache flag" looks like disappearing, so the Laptop sees the usb thumb again. After some tries I succeded in installing MacOS Sierra, but after some reboots (OS working) it suddendly got slow again. I reformated the SSD on my desktop pc with windows 10 and tested its speed with Samsung Magician and CrystalMark. 500 mb/s read and write, I don't think the disk is the problem. I thought the internal sata cable could have been damaged, but then I succesfully installed Sierra on an HDD and it works like a charm on the laptop. No way to get the SSD working. I'm pretty stuck. Thanks to anyone who would help!


texts: Safely deleting files downloaded by Safari

texts:
Sorry to ask such a basic question, but I am remotely helping my parents who have a Mac, and I am not familiar with that system, nor have I it at home.

They received a fake order confirmation email and my father clicked the button to cancel the order. This opened another tab alleging a security issue and it downloaded a number of files. They could not close the tab.

First I told them to restart Safari with the shift key pressed so that tabs were not restored.

Second they inspected the download list and cleared it (unfortunately before taking the picture I requested).

Now I am not sure as to whether the files are still on the computer. It is kind of assumed by a number of sources including https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri40598/mac that clearing the download list deletes them, but I am looking for a positive confirmation. Could please someone familiar with OSX/Safari confirm this?

My mother told me she could find no folder named "Downloads" (or its localized version). Could it be that the folder is hidden when empty?

Finally, if there is such a folder: What is safest way to empty the "Downloads" folder without risk of opening one of the files? Keeping in mind I must explain the procedure on the phone.

I do not think anything worse has happened. This looked like a scam to have them call a phone number, where they would have been requested to pay for "technical support".

Thanks in advance.


texts: How to locate UI Button for AppleScript using Accessibility Inspector

texts:
There are several articles here that address this question, but none offer the help to connect-the-dots.

The attached screen shot shot shows Accessibility Inspector for the button in question, which answers to 'process java'. It also shows the properties of the window (bottom) and 2 code strings to have AppleScript press the continue button. These are:

if exists (button "Continue" of window 1) then
    click button "Continue" of window
else if exists (button "continue" of window 1) then
    click button "continue" of window 1

I am almost certain 'tab' and 'space bar' might work for this. But, can it be done through the window? If so, how?

EDIT: Tried to get info about the buttons with:

 get every button of window 1 of process "java"
    --> {button 1 of window "Security Warning" of application process "java",
         button 2 of window "Security Warning" of application process "java",
         button 3 of window "Security Warning" of application process "java"}

It appears the buttons are 'close, zoom & minimize'. (upper left 3 dots)


texts: Sound crackled on Macook pro 16" - How to fix it?

texts:
On my macbook pro 16" with Big Sur 11.1, I have since a relative long time a problem with my speakers. If I don't reboot during multiple days, when I listen to music with "Musique" Software (actually, maybe a new version of iTunes), there are crackled sounds.
So I tried, from what I have found on the net, to restart coreaudio daemon by :

sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.audio.coreaudiod.plist && sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.audio.coreaudiod.plist

or

sudo kill ps -ax | grep 'coreaudiod' | grep 'sbin' |awk '{print $1}'`

or

sudo killall coreaudiod

or

sudo purge to cleanup RAM.

But nothing on these different commands removes this issue of cracled sound when listening to music.
It seems to be a software problem from what I have seen, not hardware.
Maybe the load of my MacBook pro is too high upt to some point. For example, uptime gives :
05:59:40  up 10 days  2:24,  1 user,  load average: 2.14, 2.06, 2.06

Finally, I am obliged to reboot if I want the crackled sound to be removed. It is annoying since I need long time for running simulation codes.
UPDATE :
So, it is a software issue from Apple support (I called them) and I need to reinitialize the PRAM/NVRAM.
I tried the method 2) here, that is, with terminal method.
But after doing :
$ sudo nvram -c

I get the error :
nvram: Error clearing firmware variable csr-active-config: (iokit/common) not permitted

I have disabled SIP :
$ csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: disabled.

Why do I get this NVRAM error ( nvram: Error clearing firmware variable csr-active-config: (iokit/common) not permitted ) ?
Any clarification is wecolme.


texts: What does “-501 0D” mean when trying to run the Apple Hardware Test?

texts:
I have a late 2012 iMac running El Capitan which has become quite sluggish. I’ve tried a few software solutions, but I think it’s something wrong with the disk. (A lot of stuff is fine; anything that touches the disk starts crawling.)
I tried to run the Apple Hardware Test using Apple’s instructions.
I booted my Mac while holding down the D key. I got the “Starting Internet Recovery” screen, then I was asked to select and authenticate with a Wi-Fi network. I did that, and it went back to the “Starting Internet Recovery” screen. Shortly afterward, it got stuck on an error:

apple.com/support
–501 0D

I’ve tried Googling this code, but I can’t find anything on what it means – mostly just some Apple Discussion Forums with other people asking about it.
Anybody here know the answer?


texts: Is it possible to get the keyboard viewer to show a full keyboard when a bluetooth keyboard is connected?

texts:
From time to time I want to simulate having a full keyboard even though my Mac uses the smaller Apple bluetooth keyboard. It is most important for the system events to get the actual key pressed as much as possible and not just find another shortcut that maps to the same action once it hits the OS.

I had hoped to use (or better trick) the supplied keyboard viewer, but the OS "cleverly" shows me the layout I have instead of the layout I want.

Can anyone help me trick my software into showing the larger keyboard like this without having one physically plugged in? It's nice to have fast access to the keys including/under F13-F15 and the key pad enter only key from time to time without plugging in more hardware. It's also nice to make tutorials that show the full key layout.


texts: If I turn autocorrect off for a short amount of time, will it forget the corrections it knows? on an iPod touch 5th generation, it will often mess with audio, and I would like to turn it on and off, but I am worried it will get rid of certain phrases that it autocorrects because of me using them so much.


texts: How to safely delete .inProgress Time Machine backup?

texts:
I attempted to start a Time Machine backup but the backup failed due to insufficient space. I now have a useless 60 GB .inProgress file that's eating into my already limited storage space.
For a seemingly easily-achieved problem, there are few resources online for this. A pre-Catalina article from 2018 suggests using tmutil delete /path, as do these Ask Different answers. All of these answers are also pre-Catalina.*
With such consensus of answers I tried sudo tmutil /path/backup.inProgress but received a return message of "Invalid deletion target (error 22)" and "Total Deleted: 0B"
$ sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/XXXX/Backups.backupdb/XXXX/2020-09-30-004400.inProgress
Password:
/Volumes/XXXX/Backups.backupdb/XXXX/2020-09-30-004400.inProgress: Invalid deletion target (error 22)
Total deleted: 0B

Also, when I run tmutil listbackups Terminal only prints completed backups (as the manual indicates should be the case).
How can I safely delete the 60 GB .inProgress file?
*This answer suggests simply dragging the .inProgress file into the Trash – though from personal experience I know this is wrong and leads to problems – namely a perpetually stuck Time Machine and an impossible to empty Trash.


texts: Syncing non-Amazon purchased eBooks between Kindle, iPad, and iPhone

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I have an Amazon Kindle Keyboard, an iPhone, and an iPad.

I have purchased a load of eBooks from the publisher, O'Reilly, and have downloaded them on to the Kindle via USB.

I note these do not show up in my Kindle account on the Amazon website, and nor do they show up on my iPhone's or iPad's Kindle apps.

Is it possible to put non-Amazon eBook purchases into my Kindle account so they show up on all my devices?


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I'm trying to use Geektool to keep a running monitor on my system, and wanted to include proper memory usage in my stats. I'm using Activity Monitor as the basis of my memory monitoring, but I'm running into an issue.

I can find and accurately calculate wired memory using the following command:

vm_stat | grep wired | awk '{print $4*4096/1024/1024/1024"GB"}'

I can't seem to get an accurate calculation of app memory though. I've tried adding up different portions of the vm_stat command to show app memory, but it doesn't seem to ever add up.

I've also tried getting used memory by trying to figure up the used, but it always comes back with more memory usage than Activity Monitor reports. I've looked online, and all Apple's website says is that App memory is the memory used by apps and background processes, which isn't really useful.

Is there combination of vm_stat pages that will add up to the used memory or app memory so that I can correctly show my memory usage in my geeklet?


texts: Can the Show/Hide timing of the menu bar be adjusted?

texts:
When using a browser with multiple opened tabs in full screen mode, the menu bar is constantly blocking my access to the tabs, because my gesture to the tabs area bounces off the top of the screen triggering the Show/Hide behavior. Its harshing my browsing!

The only setting I see is in preferences.
System Preferences > General --> Automatically show and hide the menu bar

Is there a preference file I can edit to change this setting?


texts: iTunes new song notifications: how to turn off when using miniplayer?

texts: I really like that iTunes (Yosemite, iTunes 12) shows OS notifications when a new song comes up. But when I am using iTunes in miniplayer mode, I don't need these notifications. Is there a way to get iTunes to only show the OS notifications when it is in the main window mode?


texts: How to have my iPhone 11 iOS remind me of upcoming appointments?

texts: Is there a way for my iPhone to remind me of upcoming appointments and other things? I forget things all the time so i need to be able to jot down upcoming events to remind me as the time gets closer. If so, How do i accomplish that?


texts: How to stop auto-replacement of hyphens with horizontal rule?

texts: If I wanted a horizontal rule, I'd type a string of em dashes. I can't find easily a way to disable this over-feature in TextEdit prefs ('Text replacement' is unticked) nor System Prefs ('Correct spelling automatically' is unticked). Thanks!


texts: How do I sum up specific things in Numbers?

texts:
I have a spreadsheet in the newest iWork Numbers.app, with something like:

CATEGORY | POINTS
      HW | 100
      HW | 100
      NW | 12
      HW | 50
      NW | 23

I want to just sum up all the Category = HW into a cell: I'm not sure how. I think I need to use the SUMIF() function but I get stuck afterwards.


texts: Since upgrade to iOS my phone does not remember position in audiobooks

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I upgraded my iPhone 3GS to iOS 6 from iOS 5 last week.

Since then the phone doesn't remember its position in audiobooks any more and most often (sometimes it remembers the position) starts at the beginning of a chapter near my last position. This happens whether or not the phone was turned off between plays.

Also, the phone forgot its ringtone and when I configured it to use my ringtone again, it suddenly started playing it very loudly despite the fact that it was set to mute. It also wouldn't stop playing it for several seconds even though I returned to the home screen and pressed the on/off button a few times.

Are these issues with iOS 6, new "features" or problems with my old phone?


texts: MacOS High Sierra: Remove the lag when resizing a window quickly

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I've been facing this issue since El Capitan. Basically, when I resize a window manually, it lags or whatever you want to call it. Here's a video in real time showing this problem.

A gif slowed down 50% can show the mouse pointer leading the entire window redraw as it calculates the layout and then resizes the window with live layout changes.

Notice how the mouse pointer leads and the window lags when you resize the window fast.

My specs:

Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 - 1536 MB
Disk: 250GB SSD

CPU is not constrained when the lag is present:

Although this doesn't occur on Windows 10 (Same specs), it is still really annoying to deal with, and I'd really like to know if there's anything I could do or change to get rid of this issue...

The question:
Is there a way to remove the lag when resizing a window quickly?


texts: Installed application using brew, but now it's saying it can't find it?

texts:
I have installed an application (dsniff) using brew, but when I try to run it I get a "Command not found" error.  I even tried going to the directory it was installed to:

/usr/local/Cellar/dsniff/2.4b1/sbin/

confirming that it was there (it is) and running it, but I get the same error.  Any idea why this would happen?


texts: Making Desktop 2 in Mountain Lion be shown in external display

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Is it possible to display Desktop 2 (Mountain Lion) in an external display?

The thing is I want to use Full Screen applications in an external display while using my Laptop display for non-full-screen applications.

With the Mirror Display unchecked, when I drag an application to the external display and set it to full screen, my laptop display goes black.


texts: How to Install Ubuntu on Mac with High Sierra and Legacy BIOS Booting Windows 10?

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My 21.5-inch, Mid 2011 iMac has High Sierra (macOS 10.13.6) installed. A 64 bit version of Windows was originally installed using Boot Camp. Windows uses the legacy BIOS boot method. I have upgraded to the Windows 10 version 1803 (March 2018). I wish shrink my Widows 10 partition and use the free space to install Ubuntu.

What would be the procedure to do this?


texts: How to propose rescheduling a meeting sent by someone else in Outlook for Mac 2011?

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This should be easy - but there doesn't seem to be any equivalent of 'Decline and propose a new time' or even just 'Send update' for meetings in the Mac version of Outlook.

The folks at Quora think this feature simply doesn't exist and that it's impossible. Every help page I can find that looks relevant refers only to Windows versions of Outlook. http://office.microsoft.com/ has help pages titled "Change an appointment, event, or meeting", but only for the Windows versions - for Mac, the only remotely related help page I can find is for how to "Create a meeting or appointment".

Edit - just found an Outlook for Mac 2011 page for updating meetings, but it refers to a "Send update" button in the "Meeting" tab that just doesn't exist for me. Here's all I have after editing a meeting:

Surely this can't be impossible? It seems too basic and fundamental to be a missing feature, but the only option I can find is to decline the meeting then create a whole new meeting.

There's a post on MS Answers that suggests that updates are always sent automatically with any change, but this seems to simply be wrong. I've never had updates send when I change a meeting, and whenever I do save changes to a meeting, it warns me that You have made changes to this meeting. If the organizer sends an update, your changes will be deleted.

Details if more are needed:

Outlook 2011, Lion OS
Office network with a MS Exchange network
I'm not using MS Outlook for Mac out of choice... It's a company policy I can't influence. So "outlook sux use sumthin else" won't help here.
Exact task is: there's a meeting that has been accepted, where the invite was sent by someone else. I'm trying to change the meeting time in a way that sends an update to everyone else in the meeting. I can open the meeting and change the time, but that only changes the copy stored in my personal calendar - it doesn't update the other people about the new time.
There are no permissions issues. My user account has permission to edit this meeting.


texts: How do I fix small gap at top and on the left of iMac display?

texts:
I have an iMac mid-2010 (11,3) that is showing a small gap at the top and left side of the screen in the built-in display. It is almost like the screen position is off, or the display is not being fully stretched. There used to be a way in System Preferences to change the screen position in older OSX versions, but that's since gone.

I did just replace RAM, could that cause this? And is there a way to fix it?


texts:
I installed Wine through a .pkg file, and I want to completely remove all traces of Wine.

I've searched around the internet, but I cannot find any way to uninstall wine if you've installed through a .pkg file.
I installed this one:

Can I just search Wine in Finder with show hidden files on, and delete all of the results that have to do with wine?


texts: icloud username an password forgot for iphone 6

texts: How do I recover my user name an password for I cloud  for I phone 6? I know my apple Id an password.


texts:
I was trying to get Bonjour bookmarks to show up in Safari on iPad and I came across this post from 2008 - "Safari for iPhone currently doesn't support Bonjour bookmark browsing":
http://lists.apple.com/archives/safari-iphone-web-dev/2008/Aug/msg00008.html

Is this still not implemented 4 years later?

Thanks.


texts: iPhone showing reminders, but I have none

texts: My Reminders app is showing 6 reminders, but as far as I know, I have none. I've checked the completed file, checked in iCal on the Mac. Any ideas how to delete these reminders?


texts: In settings > mobile data > network selection, there is an option called automatic. I turned this off, and it seemed to show which other mobile networks there were available, e.g. EE, 3, and so on. I stayed on my network and did not connect to any of the others. I was wondering what would happen if I chose to connect to one of the other networks shown?


texts: Cannot delete Desktop and Documents folder from iCloud Drive after accidentally enabling their storage on iCloud

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While upgrading to macOS Sierra I accidentally enabled storage of my Desktop & Documents Folders in iCloud. I quickly reversed that by disabling the option, then moving my files back to their place on my local drive.

Even though the option is now disabled on all my macOS account, I still cannot delete the Desktop and Documents folders from iCloud Drive. No matter what I do, they keep coming back moments after being deleted.

I tried the following with no success:

Delete the folders from the affected macOS account;
Delete the folders from another macOS account connected to the same iCloud account (I never enabled the option on this account);
Turn off the MacBook and delete the folders from Files on iOS;
Delete the folders from icloud.com;

No matter what I do, these two folders keep coming back moments later. This leads to the Dektop and Documents folders local to my MacBook being renamed to Desktop — Local and Documents — Local respectively, which is quite annoying.

How can I delete these two folders from iCloud Drive?


texts: iterm + tmux isn't allowing me to scroll up with the mouse

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I recently rebuilt my system and everything works except I can't scroll my (iterm2) terminal window back to look at commands and output that have scrolled off the screen.

Without tmux I can scroll but with tmux I can't

When using vim this isn't an issue as I can scroll back within vim.

For basic terminal (which I don't normally use) the behavior is a little different in that the current line scrolls back to show previous commands, but just that line, not the whole window.

My terminal settings include:

I do use tmux and I have a detailed .tmux.conf  However I have removed these settings, applied with tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf,. seen the changes applied (back to default tmux setting) and still have the issue

My settings include

set -g mouse on


texts: How can I restore files when my account isn't granted access?

texts:
I had a heavily corrupted MySQL database, so I tried to restore the files from a recent backup (a local time machine snapshot), but that failed with the error:

  The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items.

How can I restore these files?

In trying, I added my account to the "_mysql" group with dseditgroup (groups now lists me as being in the "_mysql" group), which is supposed to be granted read/write access to all files and folders, and tried restoring from Time Machine again with the same result. The folders also still display the "inaccessible" icon overlay (⛔) in Finder. I can copy (slightly) older versions of the files stored on an external Time Machine drive from a shell with a sudo ditto, but get a permissions error from MySQLd when it tries to read one of the files (the binary log index).

The computer is running OS X 10.12.6.


texts: Can not connect mac mini to a 17inch screen

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I am trying to connect my mac mini MD387D/A to a 17 inch Samsung screen Sync Master 730 which has around 9 years and supports up to 1280*1024.

I have a VGA adapter from my mac mini which worked before with two other screens of 24 and 27 inches.

The monitor behaves as follows: when I start my mac mini, the apple starting screen appears with the apple in the middle and the load icon beneath it, after a couple of second, the monitor goes black and says that there is no signal.

Could someone guide me towards a solution, or do I need a new monitor?

EDIT: I found this specs that says: Screen Resolution  1920x1200 does this imply that it is what I should at least have?


texts: I have BOX MS Office 2010 and run it on my Windows machine. Can I install it/migrate licence to OS X?

texts:
I do own BOX version of MS Office 2010.

After switching to OS X is it possible to migrate my licence to the OS X version of Office or if not needed than to install it?

Is it multi-platform or per-platform product?

I've red some Microsoft paper about it - an official documentation - but it's more enterprise oriented with volume purchuases.


texts: Is it possible to upgrade from ios 4.3.5 to 5.0.1 even though the current version is 5.1?

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My iphone has ios version 4.3.5 (8L1). I want to jailbreak/unlock it. I see that the latest jailbreak is for version 5.0.1 (by redsn0w). Itunes only allows me to upgrade to the latest version which is 5.1. But if I do that the jailbreak would be undoable.

Is there a way to upgrade to 5.0.1?

If not, is there a jailbreak available for 4.3.5?


texts: How do I reset the software Mac OS X Update Server

texts:
I somehow managed to mis-configure my Mac OS X update-server and would like to reset it, the problem is that there is no reset button to put the update-server into it's original inactivated state.

So does someone here know how to reset the update-server completely without leaving traces from the configurations which have been done before?


texts: Google authenticator iOS app crash / fails to load after iOS 14.2 update

texts: When I tap the app, it immediately crashes. I don't want to delete and reinstall the app because I am scared to lose my tokens.


texts: What automatic script runs with Bourne Shell (/bin/sh) for root?

texts: I want to add some aliases to my OSX command line environment for easier navigation when in the root prompt (sudo su to root). On the Bourne Again Shell (/bin/bash), I can edit /var/root/.bash_profile. But with the Bourne Shell (/bin/sh), what script do I edit for that?


texts:
I'm having issues with my just-purchased Time Capsule (2 TB). I have it in my room connected wirelessy to an existing network. I think this means I'm not taking full advantage of 802.11n, right? I'm doing the intial backup of some files. It is taking 20+ hours to transfer 40GB of data.

I expected the wireless transfer to be slow, but not so much! So I tried to connect to the Time Capsule from my MacBok Pro via Ethernet, but the connection speed didn't change, and this left me wondering: shouldn't be the connection via Ethernet be way faster? What is the proper way to configure this?


texts: How much broadband data does Apple TV use in the menu screen?

texts:
We have a house in a rural area where broadband data is capped at a really low rate (only 9 GB per month upload and download total, then $10 per additional GB) - the only way to get broadband other than satellite is through a local provider that uses a wireless signal.

Once we have set up our Apple TV (which we have used very easily at a location with unlimited broadband), will it use data at all while we are streaming content from iTunes?

Since the Apple TV menu shows you the Netflix, YouTube and iTunes Store options, among others, I assume some data usage is inevitable.  Does anyone know how much - more importantly, how little - that data usage would be if we are just quickly checking the menu, rather than actually streaming a movie from Netflix or downloading something from iTunes?

The other option is to disconnect the wifi router from the modem when we watch Apple TV - but that's a hassle.


texts:
I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro, which I want to upgrade with an SSD in the Optical Drive slot and create a Fusion Drive (using the Terminal diskutil command in Recovery Mode) and then re-install OS X Yosemite on the newly created Fusion Drive. I have already upgraded the HDD from 250 GB to 1 TB and the RAM is 8 GB, upgraded from 4 GB.

I need some advice because, while I know quite a lot about software (I study Computer Science at University), I'm not so good on the hardware side of things. So the questions I need answers for are:

What would be the best SSD to get for my Mac? I have been looking at the Samsung 840 Evo, but I was wondering whether something like the Samsung 850 Evo would be worth buying instead. Would I get the extra speeds it offers, seeming as my MacBook Pro can only support up to 3 GB/s instead of the 6 GB/s of newer models. Also the SATA connectors are only version 2, not 3.
When upgrading it, where do I put the SSD? Before the Fusion Drive came about, I've read that you should put the SSD in the slot where the HDD is, and put the HDD in the Optical Disk slot, as this will avoid problems with Sleep mode (because the SSD will be the boot volume). Is this still necessary with a Fusion Drive, because the system treats the 2 drives as one Logical Volume anyway?
Would I need to enable TRIM support with a Fusion Drive? Would the Samsung 840 Evo or anything else like that support all that I need?

Thanks for any help :)


texts: My IPad 2 crashed recently and I was forced to upgrade to IOS8. However, when I try to restore my local backup it no longer recognises my password. What do I do to restore my data??? I'm running Windows 7.


texts: Applescript just to 'Report Now' Spamcop

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My purpose is to write a script to automate Spamcop Reports. There are some tries in forums, but as mac os changes along the years, scripts lose its functionality. I'm newcomer with Applescript.

Spamcop is an email blacklist. Submit spams has steps, for example, in Gmail junk folder, we should separate true spam, send them as attach-mime (full headers), wait analysis, receive an email with links to confirm each spam report.

This script works:

     tell application "Mail" activate

  end tell

 tell application "System Events"
  tell process "Mail"
    delay 0.5
    keystroke "4" using command down
    delay 0.5
    keystroke "a" using command down
    delay 0.5
    click menu item "Forward as Attachment" of menu "Message" of menu bar 1
    delay 5
    keystroke "Spamcop <submit._______@spam.spamcop.net>"
    keystroke tab
    delay 0.5
    keystroke tab
    keystroke "Spam"
    delay 0.5
    keystroke tab
    keystroke "Spam are here!"
    keystroke "d" using {shift down, command down}
end tell

tell application "Mail" activate
end tell

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Mail"
        delay 0.5
        keystroke "4" using command down
        delay 0.5
        keystroke "a" using command down
        delay 0.5
        keystroke "j" using {option down, command down}
        delay 1
        key code 36
    end tell
end tell

** where keystroke "4" using command down is the 4th favorite folder, my junk

The next step is receiving the answer of Spamcop with links to confirm reporting. I tried this, but it didn't work: https://www.webveteran.com/blog/mac/mac-os-x/automate-reporting-spam-to-spamcop-net/

So, any suggestions? How to receive an email in a separate Mail folder from Spamcop, read "http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=" link, open each one in Safari, click at "Send Report(s) Now" button (in fact ""), and close this Tab.


texts: Create a bootable installer for High Sierra under macOS Catalina

texts:
Question
I'm trying to create a bootable installer for High Sierra 10.13.6 under Catalina. To create the installer app I invoked the softwareupdate command this way:

sudo softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.13.6

Obviously the download started. Then after reporting a progress of about 60% it failed:

Downloading and installing 10.13.6 installer
Install failed with error: Update not found

Any idea what went wrong here? Any advice is highly welcome.

Hardware-Software-Environment

MacBook Pro 2019 running macOS 10.15.4 Catalina. There is no encryption enabled.

Background
As discussed in the first two posts mentioned below you may start with the recipe from this article How to upgrade to macOS High Sierra. This provides you with theApp Store link. At least for me, when initiating the download from a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan, this resulted in creating only the stub installer (as described, among others, in the references below).

References
These two posts, although somewhat more general, are closely related to my above question:

How do I download macOS High Sierra for offline install?

macOS High Sierra media installer

Discussing use cases of the option --fetch-full-installer of the  softwareupdatecommand new in macOS Catalina
https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/downloading-macos-installers-with-updated-signing-certificates-on-macos-catalina/


texts: Is it possible to customise iOS 10's Control Center?

texts: I would like to customise the buttons on one screen. I need media, bluetooth/airplay, alarm clock, airplane mode, flaslight and calculator. That could fit neatly into one screen. Having different panels is annoying, as the Control Center was the kind of thing you could access without looking. Now I push the wrong buttons because I'm in the media panel instead of the basic controls or vice versa. Anyone know if this is possible?


texts: Can't install El Capitan over beta version

texts: I saw a previous question similar to mine but no answer. I participated in the beta version of El Capitan I think last year. When the public release version came out I installed it and didn't discover that I was still using the Beta version until a month ago. I can't seem to find a way to do so. Apple tech support wants to charge me ridiculous $'s to help me with no guarantees. Can anyone send me to a site or tech paper or direct help to help get rid of the beta? I am unable to update from the app store. I am using a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012). Thanks


texts: When will SIP shutdown the computer to prevent overheating?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro Early 2015 running macOS High Sierra. I've managed to get it to pretty high temperatures for both the CPU and the GPU. I've managed to get them to at least 100ºC and the computer didn't shutdown.

At what temperature will SIP(System Integrity Protection) shutdown the computer to prevent thermal damage?


texts: Phone Icon Shows 4 Voicemails on Erased iPhone

texts:
So one of my users at work recently got a new iPhone 8+ to replace her older but still functional iPhone 6s+. She just turned it in and asked that I wipe the phone of all of her data.

He account has already been moved from the old phone to the new one via AT&T's online setup page.

It was purchased through our work account and you just enter the phone number for the account being transferred and the billing zip code and then you power cycle both phones.

When that is done the old phone displays "No Service" where the new phone shows AT&T. Essentially deactivating the SIM card in the old phone.

Here's where it gets strange...

I wiped the phone: Settings > General > Reset > Erase all content and settings

And when I went back into the phone (going through the setup procedure to set up as a new phone) the phone icon shows the red indicator dot with a "4" in it indicating that there are 4 voicemails.

If I go into Phone > Voicemail the red "4" dot shows over the voicemail icon, bottom right, and all I can do is exit out of the phone.app or tap the "call voicemail" button in the middle of the screen, which just takes me to a gray screen that says "VOIOCEMAIL Call Failed" with the option to try again or cancel.

We use these phones as loaners when someone loses or breaks their iPhone until we can get them a new one, so I have to get this ready to to be rolled out to someone on a moments notice, which involves swapping in their old SIM (if available) and signing them into to their AppleID and mail accounts. But there seems to be no way to delete the old voicemails, still on the device.

Any ideas how I might approach that?


texts:
I recorded a slow-mo video using my iPhone 5s. How do I import that video to my Windows PC without losing the slow-mo effect?

When uploading the video directly to Facebook from the iPhone (from the film roll), the slow-mo effect is preserved (thus, slow-mo effect is part of the video file itself).

I've tried with "Import pictures and videos" which gets the video on the PC, but the imported video seems to lose the slow-mo effect both when playing it on the PC and after uploading the imported video to Facebook.


texts: How do I use my own money for purchases rather than using family sharing data?

texts:
A couple of months ago I made a couple of (guilty) in-app purchases for a game, under the impression that even though my family has Family Sharing, that my details would still be used for the purchases. I was later informed that they had in fact been charged to my mum's card (the one who's details are in Family Sharing) instead of mine.
Is there a way to set it up so that my details are used instead of my mum's, so I don't have to use her money and can instead use my own?


texts: Docker for Mac 10.11.6 will not start, uninstall hangs and docker menu will not open when running

texts:
Something has gone wrong with Docker on my mac and I'm trying to remove and re-install versions but I can't get the menu open to do a factory reset.
Every version I install either says it will not run with this version of Mac OS, or it "starts" and puts the icon in the top bar but I just get the colored wheel when I mouse over it and the menu won't open.
What can I do to manually factory reset docker?


texts: Is there such a thing as an indie dev being blacklisted as a developer from the App Store

texts:
I'm a 1 person indie app developer who makes cool AR apps. I've actually been doing this since 2010, though many of my older apps have been pruned.

It seems that every time I submit an app to the App Store, it gets blacklisted or put in some sort of queue where the review process is either managed by people who are completely non-technical, or trying really hard to witch hunt an innocent person.

This is representative of the app review cycle. Usually, they keep replying with reasons that do not apply to my app, believing that at some point, I will lose steam being a solo 1 person indie app developer. Sometimes, it leads to Apple never responding to my inquiries and just having my apps being in rejection forever. :(

Here's the latest. (AFAIK there is not an app out there that lets you take spatial photos in this innovative design-oriented way and lets you build with virtual 3D models in the scene. Is this too technical? What qualifies as a design duplicate when there are thousands of camera apps that don't even have an AR feature on the store?)

This is after I have responded explaining several times that my app is not in violation.

Apple replied with:

Some background -

My app is called Moments.cam. Testflight @ https://testflight.apple.com/join/RUD4IifH

Description:

  Moments.Cam is a new type of camera app that lets you take photos and turn them into portals that float there. Powered by ARKit: They're spatially floating photos that will stay forever exactly where you took that photo! You can also use it with Google Poly, a 3D model API, to search for 3D models and build digital sand castles that you can take spatially floating photos of in augmented reality!

App Review Guidelines

  Please escalate to your supervisor - I believe there is some misunderstanding
  Please note that Google Poly is not Google Play. As explained in the App Description, Poly is an API provided 3D models based on search terms. They both start with a P - but please don't get them confused.
  The app used ARKit and does not require a marker. Please follow directions in the app and wave your phone around to scan the world like a typical ARkit app. I've added additional screenshots that show this.

  Here is a video that demonstrates how to use the app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeye2GCGiZw
  The app does come with built-in instructions to guide the user to scan the ARKit surface to the point where content can begin... Please spend more than a moment before you judge my app as something else. Thank you.


texts: How do I move my iPhone contacts to Gmail?

texts: I have an iPhone that is already synced with my iMac, but I am away on leave and am using a Windows 7 computer. I need to send the contacts I've created on my iPhone to my Gmail account online, because I am going to update my iPhone's operating system and want to be sure I do not lose the contacts on my phone. I know I will probably lose my music, but that's okay.


texts: iOS: Advantage of fresh install over backup restore?

texts:
Are there any advantages in setting up a new iPhone from scratch over restoring a backup of the old one?

I have now my third iPhone and I always used the backup of the predecessor to get it set up. Do I carry any clutter with me that makes it better to do a fresh install?


texts: What do Verify Disk and Repair Disk actually do in Disk Utility?

texts:
I've recently been suspecting problems with my hard disk and saw another answer here on AskDifferent recommending Drive Genius or Disk Warrior.

I thought I'd start thought by using the built in Disk Utility app.

How good is Disk Utility at possibly identifying hardware issue, and what do "Verify Disk" and "Repair Disk" actually do?


texts: airplay audio from iPhone to MacBook Pro?

texts:
Is it possible at all to airplay audio from an iPhone to a MacBook Pro?
that is play from iPhone but select the output to be the MBP speakers instead of the airPods or internal speaker of the phone.


texts: iMac 2011 mid WiFi working after few minutes no internet

texts:
I have a problem with my iMac.
When I connect to the WiFi it’s working, after a few minutes I don’t have internet access say: no internet.
The WiFi sign is still full, but no internet connection.
The same WiFi working on iPhone, MacBook and any phone. I tried another networks and there worked. Any help please let me know. Thank you.


texts:
I have an iPhone 6, without Apple Care.

A few months ago I noticed it got unbelievably, incredibly hot during use, both on and off the charger. It would also use the battery quite fast, up to 2% a minute sometimes, and would often be completely depleted by midday from a full charge, after it being in my pocket at school with time and social media checks being the only use. It also was in mint condition, having lived in a Lifeproof case for its entire life.

However, I noticed the case started to bulge just underneath the left volume button on the side, pushing outwards slightly. Could this be a battery problem? Apple Support told me my battery health was fine (90%), so I should go to an Apple Store to get it looked at. As the closest store is 4 hours away, could anyone tell me if this is battery related or not?


texts: iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch apps that use ports other than 80 and friends

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I'm a network administrator at a small college.  In the past, we've kept a fairly open wireless network, but recently a few throughput issues have made us consider locking it down a bit more, in a play we predict will potentially preserve packet-passing performance for peers. Students would still be able to do almost anything over the wired connection available in each room, but the wireless would for the first time require authentication and be limited to only certain ports. Currently we're considering 53(dns), 80 & 443(web), 143, 587, 993, and 995 (email), and 1935 (flash video).

The big issue here for us is that we also give each new full-time on-campus student an iPod Touch, and so we need to make sure these devices (which are wireless only) continue to work for our students as expected.  So can anyone share any iOS apps or services that use other ports that we would need to open?  For example, if iTunes purchases, Location Services, Push Notifications, FaceTime, or certain well known apps require other ports, which apps and what ports do they use?

The main push behind this is density in the dorms: at certain times of day we just have too many radios active in too small a space at one time, and throughput really suffers.  So the idea is to force certain traffic (especially games and torrents) to the wired connections, which can handle this much better, and thus leave the air waves more open for other devices that don't need this capability.  So this is about making things work better rather than being more restrictive just because we can.

Note that this will all probably come to nothing, but I do need to at least investigate it thoroughly.


texts: Ok, not a techie.  I have an iPad (2018) connected via Ethernet cable, I am planning to get an Apple TV (also connected via Ethernet).  Will I be able to connect thru AirPlay to ATV, and cast to my TV, thru my IPad (and modem/network)???  Not keen on Wifi anymore so want to mostly use Ethernet.  thanks!


texts: MacBookPro8,2 early 2011 boots into safe mode but not to recovery mode (even with USB)

texts: I have a MacBook Pro early 2011 that will only boot into safe mode, trying anything besides single user results in a crash or hangs with a white screen, can't even boot from an El Capitan USB, current OS is 10.6.8. There is also a pink tinge to the screen and in safe mode there are red vertical lines an inch thick every inch (inch tinted red inch normal.) I have verbose here before a white screen hang.


texts: Mouse System Preferences does not recognize USB mouse, even though mouse works

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I have attached a Microsoft Comfort Mouse 6000 to a USB-A port on my 2014 Mac Mini running macOS Catalina 10.15 (plus all supplemental updates current at time of posting).

The mouse works, but, when I open the Mouse System Preferences to change settings, it displays an image of an Apple Magic Mouse and mentions that my computer cannot connect to a Bluetooth mouse (see image below).

Many years ago, I tried an Apple Magic Mouse, but didn't like it, so switched back to my MS Mouse.  Maybe I need to somehow uninstall some Magic Mouse drivers and/or settings.

I also cannot turn off Bluetooth, as I'm warned that I would lose my input devices, but my keyboard and my mouse are both USB-A, not Bluetooth.  The only Bluetooth devices I own are my Mac Mini & my iPhone X.  No devices are listed in my Bluetooth System Preferences.

How can I fix my Mouse System Preferences?


texts: Macbook Pro with failed USB ports - cheapest way to get some functionality

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I have a Late 2012 Macbook Pro. Both USB ports have failed, the cost of repair is not worth it. I plan to replace the entire Macbook at the end of the year. So I am looking for a cheap work around that will give at least one working and reliable USB port.

Anyway this is what is working:

Firewire port

Thunderbolt 2 port

Ethernet port

Also USB3 is working on both USB ports.

I have tried using a powered hub but this does not work. It seems that for USB1 & USB2 the ports are providing power but comms is intermittent then fails completely.

I need to try and get this up and running in a day or two using the ports that do work so I can connect USB1 & USB2 devices.

I have looked for a Firewire to USB adaptor but I think that is a no go.

There are plenty of thunderbolt 3 options but somewhat limited to expensive thunderbolt 2 docks even secondhand these are more than I would like to spend.

So any suggestions gratefully received.... Thank You!


texts: Why can't I create an IMAP folder in Mail?

texts:
Having used MS Outlook for a while with my IMAP account, I thought I would try out the new and improved Mail in OS X Lion. The structure of my mailbox on the left hand panel is as follows:

MAILBOXES
    INBOX
        CLIENT 1
        CLIENT 2
        CLIENT 3
            SUBFOLDER
            SUBFOLDER
            SUBFOLDER
        CLIENT 4
        CLIENT 5
        CLIENT 6
        CLIENT 7
    SENT
    TRASH

MY COMPANY NAME
    TRASH
    JUNK
    SENT

This has worked fine with Outlook, and with Outlook I am able to add extra IMAP folders (or mailboxes as Mail calls them). In Outlook I can add to the client folders, and the subfolders inside a client folder.

However, with Mail, when I add a new mailbox, it will only let me add a new folder inside one of my client folders. It will not let me add a folder to the "Client" level.

If I add a new mailbox, and try and place it at the top "Client" level, the new folder ends up going here:

MAILBOXES
    INBOX
        CLIENT 1
        CLIENT 2
        CLIENT 3
            SUBFOLDER
            SUBFOLDER
            SUBFOLDER
        CLIENT 4
        CLIENT 5
        CLIENT 6
        NEW FOLDER DOESNT APPEAR HERE
        CLIENT 7
    SENT
    TRASH

MY COMPANY NAME
    TRASH
    JUNK
    IT APPEARS HERE INSTEAD???
    SENT

It doesn't go in my inbox.

Can anyone help? This is the reason I have to use Outlook, as Mail won't let me create new IMAP folders at my "Client" this level.

Any help would be appreciated. Maybe I am looking at it from the wrong side, as I am used to Outlook.


texts: How to open a presentation document in Keynote on iOS?

texts:
In Keynote app on my iPad, I see a list of seven of my presentations “On My iPad”. Next to these is a list of “Locations” including iCloud Drive, On My iPad, and Recently Deleted.

When I single-tap on the icons, nothing happens. When I double-tap on the icons, nothing happens. If I press-and-hold I get a context menu offering items such as Copy, Duplicate, Delete, and so on. But no Open.

➥ How does one convince Keynote to open its own presentation files?


texts: How can I get the iPhone Podcast app to resume playback after extended stop?

texts:
I noticed a while ago that the music app didn't play podcasts any more and that a (new?) podcast app does that.

The result is that when I now listen to a podcast and stop it with the button on the headphones and then try to restart it some time later, the iPhone plays music from the music app instead.

In the old days when podcasts were in the music app, the podcast would continue playing.

How can I get the old behaviour back, i.e. I want the iPhone to continue playing what it was playing when I last stopped it?


texts: How to automate Caps Lock Delay Removal in macOS MacBook Pro?

texts:
I'll start with quoting another Stack Overflow user:

  Apple's MacBook Pro has a slight delay on the caps lock key. That is, the caps lock key has to be held down slightly longer than normal to register the key press required to engage the caps lock.*

It appears that by remapping the caps-lock key on macOS (in System Preferences, Keyboard, Modifier Keys), the delay goes away until reboot.

I would like to automate this settings configuration remapping with a script and to set it to run at startup. I have tried to use Automator but with no luck.
How can we achieve this?

*Quote reference:
How to remove caps lock delay on Apple MacBook Pro aluminum keyboard when booted to Linux


texts: How to get Quartz Composer working on macOS High Sierra?

texts:
I'd like to install Quartz Composer. So I head to Downloads Center and download Additional Tools for Xcode 9 package which contains Quartz Composer.

After copying the app elsewhere, launching it, and clicking Get Started I get this error below. How do I get it working?


texts: Visual Studio Code App wont run from Applications folder

texts:
The latest version of Visual Studio Code will not run ("can't be opened" is the unhelpful error) when I copy it to the applications folder.  It runs fine after unzipping to the Downloads folder, but just wont from the applications folder.

I don't think it's the security setting as that's already set to allow apps from anywhere.

OS X El Capitan on a Mid-2014 Macbook Pro


texts: How does CalDigit Thunderbolt 3 Mini Dock support two displays from one USB-C port?

texts:
According to the FAQ for the CalDigit Thunderbolt 3 Mini Dock, two different monitors can be connected in extend mode through the single USB-C port. How is this possible if MST is not supported?

Why can one not do the same thing with other USB-C hubs like this one? It says in their FAQ that one cannot connect two external displays in extend mode on mac because of lack of support of MST.


texts:
I clicked Share Song, but didn't receive any feedback (what Apple Music did).

Is there some kind of social network? Do I have a profile? Who sees the shared songs?


texts: tmux + iTerm2 - no permission to edit crontab

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I am running macOS 10.14.5, iTerm2 build 3.2.8,  tmux 2.9a (tmux -V).

I've granted both iTerm2.app and Terminal.app (file permission: .r-xr-xr-x) Full Disk Access (FDP) in Sys prefs > Security and Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access.

Now I am able to edit crontab using crontab -e in iTerm2 if I am not attached to a tmux session.
But I still don't have the permission to edit crontab in tmux in iTerm2 (which I can in Terminal.app) even if I use
sudo crontab -u username -e.

Error message:

$ crontab -e

crontab: installing new crontab
crontab: tmp/tmp.43698: Operation not permitted
crontab: edits left in /tmp/crontab.bytUnVCVVk

So is there anyway I can edit crontab in tmux in iTerm2?

Edit: Yes, granting FDP for tmux is unnecessary.

Edit: Add the comparison between Terminal and iTerm2.


texts: iTunes smart list - How to specific scenario

texts:
I would like to create a smart list with the 25 most played song in the last 7 days. Not the 25 most played of all times, only in the last 7 days!

Can anyone help?


texts: Disabling the software escape button on touchbar

texts:
Is there any way to disable permanently the software Escape button on the Touch Bar. After two months I can't get used it, and can't help touching it inadvertently in the middle of some important operations.

Any solution other than drilling through the touchbar is welcome.


texts: fsck_apfs not working from terminal in single user mode

texts:
I am trying to fix errors on my MacIntosh HD Data volume.

I have tried to fix using Disk Utility from normal mode and from recovery mode. Same problem. DI hangs at a certain point and that's it.

I boot into single user mode.

Using df -h I see that the MacIntosh HD Data volume is /dev/disk2s1.

I try to type:

fsck_apfs -y /dev/disk2s1

and I get this:

  error: device is unreadable because you are in single user mode.

I try the same command from normal boot and I get

  error: container /dev/rdisk1 is mounted with write access.

I have done this thousands of times before, from single user mode. This is some Catalina crap.

How do I do that now on Catalina?


texts: iPad suddenly shows "Hello" screen and asks for activation

texts:
I left my work iPad (7th gen) with the screen off for a few hours, came back to it and it was suddenly showing a "Hello" screen.

I have to select a language, country and network and it offers a "Quick Start". I then press "set up manually" and it says it's activating the iPad.

It then requires a login on an "Activation Lock" using the Apple ID the iPad was set up with. I don't know the password as it's my IT department's Apple ID.

Why has this suddenly happened? When IT enter the password when I return to work in the new year, will the iPad be back to normal or will it need setting up again?

The "Hello" screen implies the iPad needs activating from scratch, implying it's been reset to its factory state. Is this the case?

Thanks.


texts: Built-in touchpad functional but not detected by System Preferences after installing macOS High Sierra

texts:
I completely erased the HDD and reinstalled macOS (High Sierra), but the touchpad is not detected in System Preferences, which shows me the error "No touchpad detected."

The touchpad is working though, I just can't use System Preferences to make any modifications to the settings.

I yet again reinstalled it from a flash disk and have the same problem.


texts:
Short question: Will installing the additional components for Xcode 10 beta interfere in any way with the currently installed, AppStore version (9.x)?

What are this "additional components"? Are they stored separately by Xcode version, or are they shared?


texts: Is this a valid Apple request to download software?

texts:
I seem to have a USB connection that's a little flaky and will address it.

When my iPhone, connected to my MacBook made that sound it does when it is first connected a few times in rapid succession, this message appeared.

I snapped a quick screen shot, unplugged my phone and clicked Not Now rather than Learn More, or check Activity Monitor, so I can say much more than "this is how it looked," and no matter how I wiggle the connection I can't reproduce it.

It looks vague and ominously non-Apple, for reasons I can't explain. Is this a standard thing to happen, or is it weird or even potentially dangerous?


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I recently dropped my iPhone in water and it was working fine right after that, but the next morning I was prompted with an ‘activation required’ screen.

I’m afraid ‘activating’ will wipe out everything on my iPhone, so I’m trying to back everything up before doing that.

However, both iTunes and a third party tool called iMazing won't let me back anything up before activating.

I know that none of the data has been affected by the water because (a) it shows up in iMazing and (b) the lock screen still has my old wallpaper, language settings etc.

So, 2 questions: does activating my iPhone restore it back to factory? And how can I backup my iPhone without iTunes on Windows/Mac/Linux?


texts: Turn a Mac Mini into a public WiFi hotspot

texts:
What I'd like to do, for an event, is use a Mac Mini to share a Internet connection via WiFi.  However, I'd like to put up a splash page to the joining device's browser. It would display the free WiFi is sponsored by blah, terms and conditions are blah, etc.

How would I force that redirect on joining?  I know plenty of companies do it but I can't find a solution that either isn't a Hotel level enterprise product or a hack to a existing router.  Any ideas?


texts: Type backslash more easily on Japanese wireless keyboard

texts:
In order to write \ on a Japanese wireless keyboard we have to use alt+¥. Very very inconvenient actually. Especially with Swift, the use of \ will sky rocket... Alt is bottom left, right of caps, and ¥ is left of delete. You absolutely need two hands for this, and alt is close to caps and ¥ is close to delete so all kind of havoc will break loose from time to time.

Is there anyway to remap this key? Of course I'm mostly using Xcode. Ideally I'd like to remap \ to  _  which is left of the right shift. Because  _  prints _ both for shifted and unshifted taps, so \ for an unshifted tap would be great.


texts: Open a new terminal tab from the current terminal using command

texts:
A new terminal window can be opened by a command

open -na Terminal

Is there a way to open a new terminal tab?


texts: On notification centre, when I receive a notification and click on it, it doesn’t open straight away

texts:
Can anyone tell me how to turn this feature off? When I click on a notification it then shows me that open button, which I then have to click to go onto the app. I want to be able to just click the notification and go directly to the app but cant figure out how to change this?
This is on IOS13


texts: So I have had my iPad for about a year but I haven't used it in a few months. I've been easy on it. It has never fell or anything and now it won't work. When I hold down both buttons (or the power one) absolutely nothing happens. Also when I plug it into my computer iTunes doesn't even recognize it. What can be wrong and how can I fix it?


texts: Multi-monitor: spaces thumbnails on external monitor missing

texts:
I've been having the following issue since about two weeks:

My external monitor, containing the OS X title bar, does not show the thumbnails for my three spaces when in mission control. My retina's monitor (secondary) does show them as before.

[ Nice, this question need a screenshot, but I don't have enough reputation. :( ]

External (primary) monitor:

No grey border in mission control. The outermost bg is the wallpaper for that space on the Retina display. It will change as well when moving to another space using ^left/^right

I can still move an app to another space by drag 'n dropping them to the place where the thumbnail should be. So it's not that they're gone; they're just invisible!

Retina display (secondary)

As it should be in mission control: Zoomed out bg image, grey border containing three thumbnails for the three spaces I have.

Has anyone experienced these symptoms as well?


texts: Looking for an app to manage an archived music library

texts:
My iTunes library is huge, so I am dragging music I no longer listen to, but I'd like to keep out of this into an archive folder.

The problem with this, is that the folder structure isn't preserved, and since many songs have the same name, I may lose some things if they are copied over. It also makes it hard to find artists or albums I want to retrieve.

I'm looking for something like iTunes which will be able to watch a folder (or even manually import) and then create a folder structure to organise the music based on artist/album/track or something similar.

I've tried 8 iTunes alternatives so far, and they either rely on iTunes existing library, or they simply create a structure within their own app and leave the folder unorganised.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?


texts: Fast and easy OS X app, to copy and paste and store and retrieve, code and text back fast?

texts:
Sometimes when coding I use TextEdit to copy and paste some snippets in it, buts it's not efficient.

So I look for some personal recommendations for a fast easy OS X app to copy and paste and store and retrieve code / text back fast?


texts: Lan speed of Airport time capsule is too slow

texts:
It is a latest model of airport time capsule, the lan speed is quite slow, the speed from macbook to airport disk is 20~25MB. And the speed between the connected macbook and another client is 8~12MB.
Both the connections are 802.11ac，and Tx rates both are 300~800MB.


texts: How to prevent dictation from accessing/sending your contacts?

texts:
I have just read this article about the privacy concerns when using dictation in Mountain Lion. The article points out part of the disclaimer:

  “When you dictate text, what you say is sent to Apple to be converted
  to text. To help your Mac recognize what you’re saying, other
  information is sent as well, such as your contacts.”

The Apple site also states:

  Just say your friend’s name, and Dictation knows who you mean. It
  works with information in the Contacts app to recognize and spell
  names accurately, even if they have unusual spellings.

So I understand that it's not necessarily for nefarious purposes and I'd like to continue to use dictation, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable knowing my contacts' information is being sent away from my computer.

As far as I've found, there is no way to officially disable the sending of contact information. I'm wondering if it's possible to block/disable dictation from sending my contacts using another method?


texts:
Time was, Macs crashed a lot. (Maybe PCs did too, but I've only ever used Macs). And over time, I became wary of doing two things at once.

Today I wouldn't interrupt a back-up but I'm wondering -- is it okay to touch the keyboard during other long-running stuff like a big delete or download? Are there times when one should just leave an activity alone?


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Default background color in Textedit

Is there any way to get text displayed in white and the background be black in TextEdit in plain text mode?


texts: How do I obtain the FileVault2 recovery key after it has been modified?

texts: The Mac is encrypted using filevault. If the user changes the recovery key using 'changerecovery' command, is there any event generated? And is it possible to get the new recovery key?


texts: Scroll to old messages while in edit mode

texts:
I noticed that when replying to a text message I can access and scroll through previous message from the person I am replying to so I have a good view of the conversation history and can e.g. copy some text from it.

However after typing more than 7 lines of text I can no longer go back to the the message I am replying to.

Is there a way to access conversation history in that scenario, or is it simply a design feature saying "keep it short"?


texts: MacBook Pro4,1 upgrade OS X from Snow Leopard compatibility with iPhone 5S

texts:
I've been meaning to upgrade the OS X on my Oct 2008 MacBook Pro4,1 (2.4 GHz, 2GB RAM) forever. I just purchased an iPhone 5S and don't want to get ahead of myself.

Three (maybe four) inter-related questions:

What is the highest OS X upgrade to run smoothly on my MacBook Pro4,1? It is still running OS X 10.6.8. and I just loaded iTunes 11.1.1 and I'm still able to backup the new iPhone 5S running iOS 7.1.1 directly to computer.
What is the highest pairing of OS X AND iOS AND version of iTunes, that will run smoothly on my computer and still allow me to backup my iPhone to the computer?
If I upgrade phone to iOS 8.1.1, will I need to upgrade iTunes to ver. 12 and will it run on OS X 10.7.x or will I need to upgrade to 10.8? I thought I saw somewhere that 10.7 was highest OS X to run on my MacBook Pro4,1?


texts: Macbook Pro external monitor maxes out at 1360x768

texts:
I have a 13" MBP with a mini DP to VGA. I have it hooked up to my new Samsung 23" display that has a max resolution of 1920x1080, but it seems that I can't pick a resolution higher than 1360x768. The adapter is from CablesToGo and states that the max resolution supported is 1920x1200 so I should be fine.
Note: I've tried on 2 MBP's and the resolution is the same on both.


texts:
Country: USA
Carrier: AT&T
iPhone: Xs
iOS Version: 12.4

I’m wondering if this is more carrier-related than phone-related, but on occasion I won’t have a Voicemail notification show up until hours after I miss a call.  This seems to be random as it doesn’t happen for every missed call and doesn’t seem to be exclusive to calls I send to Voicemail or actually miss.

Is there a way to “refresh” my available Voicemail list (as the normal pull down to refresh motion doesn’t seem to work) manually?  Has anyone else run into this behavior (and more importantly, fixed it)?


texts:
I have an older version model of an iPad Pro. I need to download an application that requires Windows.

Can I install Windows 7 on my iPad Pro?


texts: Battlefield 2 via CrossOver: Graphic Bug With High Terrain

texts:
I'm trying to play Battlefield 2 with CrossOver on 10.7.4 but it produces a graphic glitch:

I've already checked the software updates for new graphic-divers but can't find any anything. Is there maybe a way to update the drivers without the "Software Update..." seclection from ? Does anyone have ideas how to fix this?

Thanks for every answer!


texts: iphone rings through speaker with earphones connected

texts: Just noticed that my iphone 8+ (ios 11.3) rings through speaker even when headphones are connected (works both with earpods and beats solo wireless). Is it a bug or a feature? Is there any way to disable it?


texts:
I am in the market for a new laptop and have my eye on the new MacBook Air (13" model). It's perfect in every way, except one. Unlike the white MacBook (RIP) and MacBook Pros, the Air lacks a Kensington lock slot. I spend a great deal of time in cafes and don't like worrying about my laptop while I'm going to the restroom or standing in line to get a refill, etc.

Do you have any ideas for securing the MacBook Air for use in a public area? I haven't found other options that I find satisfactory.

I understand the Kensington cable lock isn't a perfectly secure system. (What is?) But it's been enough of a deterrent that I've never had even a concern using my current MacBook in cafes since I got it in 2006. Whereas other friends have had their unsecured, unattended laptops stolen while working in local cafes, I've never had even a hint of a problem while using the cable lock on my MacBook.

Note: Services like Prey Project are great, and I'm signed up for the service, but I'm searching in particular for a deterrent that will make it so that I don't have to ever actually call upon the service.


texts: Will my device's location be shown in Find My iPhone if it is connected to iTunes?

texts:
Two days ago I lost my iPhone 5s. It could have been stolen.
I've reported it to my carrier and police yesterday as stolen.

I got Find My iPhone enabled, but when I login to iCloud there is no information (the device is shown as offline). I hope someone will start my phone, therefore…

If the person who stole/found my iPhone will try to connect it to iTunes and try to restore the iPhone, will Find My iPhone show me the location of the phone? I'm a little scared because I found a way to disable activation called iCloud Bypass.

If it possible I will not find my phone, but if my iPhone sends me its location during the bypass process or even if someone will try to restore the device in iTunes, I will find a thief. Does anybody know anything about that Find My iPhone functionality?


texts: How to reliably keep network share connected for a specific user using automount?

texts:
I've got a Synology NAS and a Mac mini running Plex and XBMC, which streams content from the NAS. The MM frequently loses the connection to the NAS, for several reasons (e.g. after updating/rebooting the NAS, network problems, OS X problems).

After trying several solutions for this issue, I finally came across the built-in automount tool, which is supposed to reconnect network drives when the connection is lost. I set it up, and it seemed to work. But there's one annoying problem:

I'm not sure how to phrase this, but automounted shares seem to enter some kind of not-really-connected state from time to time. When the share is traversed, it immediately connects. That's fine, but the share is mounted only for the user who accessed it.

I've got two user accounts: TV, which runs Plex and XBMC and needs to access the share, and Admin, which I use for management tasks. Occasionally, I use the Admin account to connect to the NAS as well, but I'm using the Finder for that. There's no need for a permanent connection.

For some reason I don't understand, sometimes, the automounted share is mounted for the Admin account. Which means the TV account is unable to access the share (Permission denied). I can umount the share with Admin and ls it with TV to mount it for the latter, but after some time, Admin has the permissions again.

How can I fix this? How do I have to set up the permissions so that TV is the only account who can access the automounted share?

Here's what my automount files look like:

auto_master

Permissions: -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel

+auto_master      # Use directory service
/net              -hosts     -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
/home             auto_home  -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers  -fstab
/-                -static
/-                auto_nas   -nosuid,noowners

auto_nas

Permissions: -rw-------  1 root  staff

/NAS -fstype=smbfs,soft smb://TV:@192.168.1.56/Files

/NAS (the mount point)

Permissions: drwx------@   1 TV  wheel

The MM is running Yosemite (10.10.3).


texts: How to deal with payment scam through apple calendar?

texts:
I upgraded to latest version of iOS and link my debit card to apply pay a few days ago. After that I start receiving a very suspicious invite on my iPhone calendar. I ignored it and on advice from my friend, disabled "Events found in apps". However, 2 days later, when I wake up, I received the same event again, and most shockingly the phone was at the payment screen, waiting for me to authorise the payment of $19,99 through my thumbprint. Unfortunately I did not take a screenshot of this as I immediately turn off and on my phone to get rid of it.

I checked both my gmail and yahoo mail accounts that are linked to my phone, including the spam folder, but did not find any suspicious email.

I had contacted apple support, but they did not even know about the disable event found in apps feature. Really worried about the security of my phone now and thinking of deleting apple calendar or removing apple pay. Any advise will be appreciated.


texts:
I want a stable IDE for coding in C/C++ on Mac OS X Mavericks.

Currently I am using Code::Blocks but it sometimes closes reporting some strange list of errors. Also the Code::Blocks "logs(F2)" does some impairment to the editor area by leaving partial prints. I'm looking for an alternative now; can you suggest one?


texts: Old Clash of Clans account transfered - how to create a new village?

texts:
I have worked with Supercell to transfer my kid's CofC village from my GameCenter account to his. (He had started playing on my machine under my account but he now has his own account.) That is now resolved.

However, since he used to play on my machine, his village is still the one that loads when I launch the CofC app. It's not attached to my GameCenter account, but it's still the one that appears by default. Obviously, I don't want to play my kid's village (and in fact I can't even launch the app when he's playing on his side). How can I start a new village and link it to my GameCenter?

I'm thinking that a possible course of action would be to (1) backup, (2) restore to factory settings, (3) login to GameCenter and create a new village, (4) restore from backup. This should work but it's a bit involved. Anything easier?


texts: 'Add to home screen' website cannot access camera (iOS 11)

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We're facing the issue that websites that have been added to the home screen can't access the camera anymore with iOS 11. That is, after clicking the input (type file) 'Choose file' button the options 'Take Photo or Video', 'Photo Library' and 'Browse' are shown as normal. Choosing the first one opens the camera but the screen stays black, no matter what.

I've tried with the latest update (11.0.2) but the behaviour is the same.

I tried to debug the website but it simply doesn't show up in Safari > Develop menu (it shows up if opened normally with Safari, not when added to home screen).

The upload works as expected if the site is opened normally in Safari, ie. if it's not added to the home screen.

Any ideas appreciated!

EDIT

It seems to be a known issue if <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes"> is set.

More at:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46228218/how-to-access-camera-on-ios11-home-screen-web-app

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/85665


texts: How to succesfully create a bootable Windows installation USB stick on Mac?

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This should be a trivial one; unfortunately, it isn't. I've been trying to create a bootable USB stick for Windows 10. The bootcamp tool seems easy to use, but it always stops with the following message:

Your bootable USB drive could not be created.
There is not enough space available on the disk.

I've tried with too different USB sticks, a KINGSTON USB 2.0 16Gb stick and a Corsair USB 3.0 32Gb stick. I first tried to do this on MacOS 10.12, no luck, and then took this experience as an incentive to upgrade to MacOS 10.14, yielding the same result.

The Windows version I downloaded from Microsoft is the newest October update. The filename is:

Win10_1809Oct_EnglishInternational_x64.iso

The bootcamp tool doesn't allow any customization of the process, I don't think there is anything I could do different. I have difficulties to believe that bootcamp is just broken.

I've also tried to create the USB stick both with dd and Etcher, both yielding no error, but the stick wasn't bootable in the end. Etcher even warned me about this and suggested to use bootcamp instead. Instructions how to make the USB stick bootable would be welcome.


texts: I am more of linux and windows user, now forced to use mac as testing device, for testing a webrtc app, I want to block all the UDP ports in my macbook, how do I achieve it from commandline( or some tools)


texts: Archived Apple Messages - How to print or reactivate

texts: Is there a way to print or reactivate text messages that have been archived? I can view the archived messages just fine in the ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat/Data/Library/Messages directory.