texts: How do I force send a text message in iOS 10?

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When I'm out of the country and don't have wifi or data and I want to send a text message to another iPhone back in the UK, it won't let me send a standard text message . It wants me to send an iMessage as it recognises I'm sending to another iPhone , but I do not have any data allowance or wifi so it won't let me send an iMessage anyway and I can't find a way for forcing it to send a text SMS message.

I've looked in settings and turned off my iMessage, and the option to send text SMS only is not there anymore. I used to be able to do this before iOS 10.
Is there a way I can send a standard text?


texts:
So I recently bought 4-port Lenovo USB hub with LAN. It came with a driver I needed to install to get the LAN to work. But the documentation said that the USB hub should be unplugged while installing the driver.

Unfortunately - I had the USB hub plugged in while installing the driver. And now the LAN doesn't work.

I've tried installing it on another computer and things work fine.  The driver I installed was LAN9500.

Is there anything I can do to make things work?


texts: Memoji/Animoji transparent background video

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TL;DR: I want to get a Memoji video with a transparent background.

When I record a Memoji video in Messages, the video clearly has no background (transparent) as switching between light/dark mode (in iOS 13) switches the background of the video in Messages and in the camera roll between black and white.

However, if I save the Memoji video and airdrop or email it to my Mac and load it into a video editing software (final cut pro) or into photoshop, the video has a black background. I need the transparent background version of the video as I want to use it for a personal website I'm building that will have a light/dark mode where the background of the website changes colour behind the Memoji.

Is there any way for me to get a Memoji video file with the transparent background?

If not, does anyone have any suggestions on how I could best edit out the black background? I have tried after effects but the rotoscoping didn't work perfectly, and I don't want to have to cut it out frame by frame in photoshop as the video is ~10 seconds long.

Appreciate the help!


texts: Certificate error when using Chrome for iOS with company CA

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I am using an iPad with Google Chrome installed to access the internet. I have downloaded and installed the Netbox Blue certificate authority from their website. I can currently access https:// websites using Safari however I cannot access these sites using the Chrome app. I am not getting any certificate errors while using Safari.

Is there a particular way you need to add certificate authorities to the Chrome app, or is this an issue with my connection?


texts: So I just got myself a new iPhone 7 Plus and I am having some issues with Airdrop. While I can send files to other devices just fine, the other devices cannot see my iPhone. Airdrop is turned on for Everyone and I already tried rebooting the device. Maybe there's some other setting that I am missing?


texts: Understanding Intel iris graphic card spec for mac mini

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I'm reviewing moving to some software that has a system requirement of a 1GB of video / graphics card.

The computer in question is a 2014 Mac mini, which I remember at the time of buying had a "Intel Iris Graphics" but no stated MB / GB number so I presumed it was a not very powerful graphics card built directly onto the CPU.

Just now i checked "About this Mac" and it seems to state that the graphics card is "Intel Iris 1536MB" - Does that mean that I have a 1.5GB graphics card ?

If so why doesn't apple list it as that, even now on the current mac mini page they list the graphic card as "Intel Iris Graphics" ?

Mac Mini Specs


texts: Catalina: HTTP downloads in Terminal stall without sudo

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I am experiencing a weird behavior only affecting running apps in the Terminal (BASH).

When running wget someurl, it will timeout. If I run the same with sudo, it works.

Other apps have no connectivity issues to the same URLs (Chrome, Edge etc.).

The issue remains with and without firewall activated.

Example:

$ wget http://www.google.com
--2019-10-26 22:33:24--  http://www.google.com/
Resolving www.google.com (www.google.com)... 172.217.14.196
Connecting to www.google.com (www.google.com)|172.217.14.196|:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...

Nothing happens here, it'll time out. Google opens just fine in the browser. If I run wget with sudo, I get the HTTP response.

I ran the first aid option in disk util to repair file permissions on all volumes, no change.

Any idea?

Thanks!


texts: Mac application to download, verify (through md5), and run another large application

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I have spent quite some time Googling for a specific product solution that I cannot seem to find for the life of me, so I come to Stack Exchange for some help.

I work for an unmentioned public university in which a certain group of incoming freshman students are required to purchase a new laptop and one of the options they have is a specific configuration of a 13" Macbook Pro. We are forecasting that approximately 1,800 students will be aquiring these Macbooks over the next few months before the Fall semester begins in August.

The issue we have is they are required to use some specific software that is only available in Windows. We have found a product solution that runs a simple .dmg file and partitions the existing hard drive as such to install a pre-configured Windows image in Boot Camp which includes this required software. This way the student is not required to perform any tasks that are outside their scope of technical knowledge, seeing as Boot Camp can at times be a bit confusing.

The solution I am looking for is an application or method that performs the following;

Downloading that potentially large .dmg file (in excess of 40 GB)
without the student having to enter any input, such as where the
file is located on the internet
Verifying the file through an md5
checksum
If possible, automatically executing that .dmg file


texts: Why does download have a little x icon on left corner?

texts:
I downloaded PostgreSQL from here. But when I look at Downloads folder, it looks different from other downloads. It has a small x icon on corner:

Why?


texts: How can you change the iCloud account name on iOS 10?

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Is there any way to change the iCloud account name (not the actual email address, just the name of the account as in System Preferences/Internet Accounts on macOS) on iOS?

I know this had been possible in the past, but I can't find the setting anymore.


texts: Easy way to upload images with shortcut or command line or drag drop

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I need a cloud service to storage image for blog.

I write my blog in markdown language,

I need to get the url of images after uploading those  to  the any cloud service.

Is there any cloud service or tool can let me do it ?

The url of images should be permanent  for my blog , thanks


texts: How to delete doubled weather widget in El Capitan?

texts: After upgrading to OS X 10.11 I have two weather widgets (one, maybe, is inactive). So, is it possible to delete the blank one? If yes, where or how I can do this?


texts: Keyboard shortcut to lock the keyboard, without locking the screen?

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My cat keeps walking over my keyboard.

Is it possible to lock the keyboard with a keyboard short cut but leave the screen running and all apps visible?


texts: How to enable English mode as default for OS X login

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I cannot input user account in English without changing input mode when to type user account at login dialog box. I have to change input mode to US every time when I boot mac.

Settings:

Region is english
Top priority input mode is English(US). Next one is Japanese.
I setup for the login dialog box to type use account name and password for when its  login.

Environment:
Input modes: hiragana(Kotoeri)
Input source: US, Kotoeri
Keyboard: Japanese

Do you know how to enable English mode as default without changing input the mode?


texts: Are the per process memory and other statistics defined the same as the system wide stats?

texts: There's been a lot of posts about memory in OSX.  None have really documented what the screen below speaks to.  Especially the difference between private memory, and virtual private memory.  Also does port represent just network ports, or does it include open file handles on that screen? The link right here What's the difference between Real, Virtual, Shared, and Private Memory? is not the same question.  They're speaking of a different screen in OSX, which makes different measurements.  The screen I'm referring to in the image below is per process, not per system.  I would greatly appreciate if any one can provide information to what memory statistics in the image below represent, and what ports details.


texts: Does iTunes Sound Check Lower Sound Quality?

texts:
I have found that many do not like the Sound Check feature in iTunes.

Will enabling Sound Check lower sound quality?

Why does/does it not reduce sound quality?


texts: Using Applescript to get the subject of an email - Not working as advertised

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I'm new to Applescript, trying to do a basic script that gets called from a mail Rule.

Im stuck on getting the subject. There doesnt seem to be one available.

using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule
tell application "Mail"
        repeat with aMess in theMessages
            try
                set subj to subject of aMess
                (*
                aMess has only one property, "contents"  =
                message 1 of mailbox "Incoming POP Messages" of account id "CD180EE3-9A52-4623-BBF0-F722556AF94A"

                *)
                if subj is "" then error
            on error errMsg
                (* errMsg is
            osascript got an error: Can’t get subject of message 1 of mailbox "Incoming POP Messages" of account id "CD180EE3-9A52-4623-BBF0-F722556AF94A".
            clearly it cant get subject because it has only "contents" property
            How to get the actual email and it's values ?
            *)
                set subj to errMsg
            end try
            display dialog "The Subject is " & subj
        end repeat
    end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from

So,

How to get the actual email and it's values ?

I thoguht that was automatic in the loop for each item.


texts: Wake On Lan (WOL) iMac 2009 El Capitan, Sierra, not working

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System:

iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009)
El Capitan 10.11.6
Non-Apple modem/router

Wake on LAN isn’t working. I have tried a variety of methods: iOS apps (Fing, iNet, Mocha); Mac applications and scripting on another Mac (WakeOnMac, wakeonlan perl script).

Yes, I’m on a local network, and yes I’ve ticked the ‘Wake for network access’ in System Preferences. Also checked with pmset -g that womp = 1. I have also tried overriding networkoversleep (1).

I initially believed the Ethernet (which directly connects the iMac to the router and should make this process more reliable) disconnected during sleep. I tested this by opening System Preferences > Network and leaving that open while I sleep it. When I woke it from sleep, the Network Preferences panel was still open (obviously) and Ethernet (at the top) showed as Disconnected and features a red dot beside it. It reconnects very quickly, but that’s no good for WOL.

I have now tested installs of Mavericks, Yosemite and macOS Sierra on a separate partition. Mavericks and Yosemite both allowed WOL (despite the Ethernet 'disconnecting' issue still being there, suggesting it doesn't actually disconnect). macOS Sierra, as El Capitan, does not allow WOL. The pmset settings and 'Wake for network access' etc. are all the same.

Does anybody know of an obscure network setting somewhere that disables WOL despite it being enabled in pmset?


texts: HGST 1TB in Mid 2012 MacBook Pro not working in SATA bay but drive seems fine

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In my Mid-2012 13 inch MacBook Pro I have a 500GB HDD in the standard SATA bay and I replaced the DVD drive with a drive cage which has a SSD in it. I bought this Hitachi HST 1TB drive \to replace my 500GB drive, but when I put it in the standard SATA bay I can't format it and I couldn't install Windows or Linux on it.

I took it out again and I connected it with a SATA to USB cable and it worked perfectly, so the drive is not broken, I suspected the data cable is broken because that happens sometimes with this model MacBook Pro.  I put the old 500GB drive back in, and it works fine. So it can't be the cable, this doesn't really make sense to me but I'm going to try to put the 1TB drive into the drive cage and the SSD into the standard drive bay.

Any ideas or suggestions what I should try?


texts: TRRS microphone not recognized on macbook pro but recognized on bootcamp

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I have bought a 3.5mm TRRS mic (no headphone). When I connect it to my MacBook pro (Early 2015), however, it is only recognized as an "external headphone" and not as an input. When I bootcamp, however, it is recognized as both a headphone and a microphone, and when I set the microphone as input it works normally. Additionally, if I use a 3.5mm to lightning adapter on my iphone, it is again recognized as both a headphone and a mic and I can use the mic to record.

How do I set it up so that I can use the mic to record audio on my macOS partition?


texts:
Xcode's code autocompletion is quite good, I am missing one thing though:
in vim I can press ctrl+n to autocomplete any word, even those in the comment.

Here is a screenshot from xcode to show what I mean:

I am wondering if there is a keyboard shortcut to achieve I am looking for.


texts: What are the six openings on the bottom of the MacBook Pro for?

texts:
I have a 2013 Retina MacBook Pro. I have noticed there are six slits, three on each side, on the base of the laptop.

What are these for, and if I were to use them as a place to clip something, would it affect my computer?


texts: How to scrobble to last.fm from YouTube played via Apple TV?

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I got some rad new sonos speakers and hooked them up to my TV. So naturally I'm now playing more music videos on YouTube. But Last.fm isn't picking up these scrobbles. Bummer!

What can I do to make sure I'm tracking these plays in Last.fm?


texts: How to detect external VGA display on retina MBP running Sierra?

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I have a 15in Macbook Pro (Late 2013 model) which, until recently, had no problem detecting a VGA projector connected via an adaptor connected to either of the Thunderbolt ports. Today I tried it and it simply could not detect the projector display. The only difference I can think of is that I've upgraded to macOS Sierra since last I remember using this system.

I've tried some other combinations to see if I could figure out what the root cause is, but all of the following options work as expected:

connect an HDMI display to the HDMI port
connect an HDMI display to a Thunderbolt port via an adaptor
boot into Windows 10 (using Bootcamp) and connect the same VGA projector to a Thunderbolt port via the same adaptor

All this suggests it's not a problem with the adaptor, with macOS Sierra using external displays, or with the Thunderbolt ports - just with Sierra driving a VGA display.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem is and how I can fix it?

Edit: I've tried resetting the NVRAM/PRAM settings and I've clicked "Detect Displays" a few times in Display Prefs - no success.


texts:
I just had a window pop up telling me it was Opening BaseSystem.dmg, and then disappearing in ~1 second.  All I can find is a reddit thread with preciously few answer.  Anybody with more intel?  I was doing a backup (with Time Machine, an USB connected external drive) when the pop up flickered.

I am on MacOS 10.13.6 (17G65).

EDIT: the same dialogue just flashed up (I am doing a backup, with an external HD connected with a USB port).  So likely this popup has something to do with having a drive attached.


texts: Finder in Sierra: How to get "Up" to "Macintosh HD" or "Volumes"

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Prior to 10.12, if I opened a Finder window and hit Command+↑ a bunch of times, I'd get to /Users, then Macintosh HD, then /Volumes

Now in 10.12, I can get as far as /Users but then Command+↑ becomes disabled.

I can still navigate directly to either location with Command+Shift+G or by browsing via the sidebar. What's required to be able to navigate "up" to them from lower-level folders?


texts: iMac 27-inch, Late 2014, RAM upgrade size combinations

texts: There are 4 slots. 2 slots taken by 2x4GB that came with Mac at purchase. Max memory is specified as 32GB. Can I buy 1x8GB and 1x16GB to fill the remaining 2 slots. Or do I need to use 8GB for both remaining slots. Thank you!


texts: Having trouble configuring homebrew to run pure-ftpd as a service

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I am trying to run pure-ftpd 1.0.46 as a service and have configured my plist file as below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>homebrew.mxcl.pure-ftpd</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/usr/local/opt/pure-ftpd/sbin/pure-ftpd</string>
      <string>-A</string>
      <string>-E</string>
      <string>-j</string>
      <string>-z</string>
      <string>-l</string>
      <string>puredb:/usr/local/etc/pureftpd.pdb</string>
      <string>-I</string>
      <string>1</string>
      <string>-c</string>
      <string>1000</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
    <string>/usr/local/var</string>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/usr/local/var/log/pure-ftpd.log</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/usr/local/var/log/pure-ftpd.log</string>
  </dict>
</plist>

However, I find that whenever I try running as a service it logs the following errors.

pure-ftpd: invalid option --
pure-ftpd: unrecognized option `--j -z'
Unable to start a standalone server: Permission denied

Can anyone identify an error I've made in my plist file?

I tried to confirm it matched the example in SirPavlovas answer provided here : Getting launchd to read program arguments correctly


texts: How do I slipstream macOS updates onto the installation thumb drive?


texts: How to hide xattr lines from "ls -l" output

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When I list files in the command line with "ls -l",  I get all the xattr lines also and this clutters the output, making it hard to find the files I want.  How can I list a directory without printing the xattr lines?

Here's an example of what I get when I type "ls -l"

drwxrwxr-x@ 461 root    admin  -   15K Aug 31 19:54 bin/
    com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineNewestSnapshot    50B
    com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineOldestSnapshot    50B
drwxr-xr-x@  13 walter  admin  -  442B Jul 18 08:56 etc/
    com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineNewestSnapshot    50B
    com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineOldestSnapshot    50B

Edit:
I figured it out. See answer below.


texts: I'm kinda interested in using the Dvorak layout (if nothing else, people won't want to steal my machine as much), but it drives me insane that tapping a key types a different character than is written on the key. Is there a way to remove & rearrange the keycaps on an 09 MacBook Pro? What do I need to watch out for?


texts:
Recently I face the issue on my iphone like this:

translated to english: Connection error from iPhone, call ended
When it happens?
When I receive a call from other person on my iphone it is also displayed on my iPad. Now I try to answer the call from iPad. But then call is immediately ended and on both devices there is the same error.

on iPhone: "Connection error from iPhone"
on iPad: "Connection error from iPad"

So, why it happens?


texts:
I have a Project Fi data-only SIM in my iPhone 6 (iOS 10). The data-only SIM allows my GSM-only iPhone (bought with an AT&T SIM) to get service from T-Mobile and would let me get service from Sprint (if my iPhone had CDMA band support.

When I put the Fi SIM card in, the Settings app got a new row called 'Cellular'. In the Cellular menu, there is a single toggle labeled 'Automatic' that defaults to off. If I turn off Automatic Carrier Selection, what will I be able to do? Will my iPhone actually be able to access Sprint? What's going on here, and what's the purpose of the Automatic toggle?

Here's an image:

tl;dr: What does the automatic toggle above control and what will happen if I choose a carrier other than Project Fi?

To clarify: Project Fi is a MVNO carrier run by Google that allows Nexus and Pixel phone owners to connect to T-Mobile, Sprint, and US Cellular networks under one pay-as-you-go plan. I have my main Fi sim in a Nexus 6P. The carrier also offers data-only SIMs to pop into a tablet or spare phone to give a secondary device data service to the same three networks. That's the data-only SIM I'm talking about here.


texts: TestFlight: Why isn't individual tester getting notifications when new TestFlight builds are pushed to store?

texts: I have an app on TestFlight, and I added an individual tester to version 0.1.3. I then pushed versions 0.1.4 and 0.1.5, and although this tester automatically appears under "Individual testers" for these last two builds, they didn't receive any notifications about them, so they still have only version 0.1.3. They have auto-update set to ON. Does anyone know how I can resolve this?


texts: How do I disable the camera shutter sound when taking a photo with my iPhone 6S?

texts:
Even after I disabled the ringer and muted the phone, the shutter sound can still be heard on my iPhone 6S. Why?

I tried to fix it in Settings, and followed the instruction, but the camera still makes shutter sound.

What can I do to turn the sound off?


texts: Time Machine reporting thousands of errors: setattrlist failed for path '/.MobileBackups/Computer/

texts:
For some reason, I can not longer complete a backup to a remote Time Machine server. In the error log, I see thousands of error messages. Here's generally what they look like:

  2016-10-27 16:13:31.330679-0500  localhost mtmd[745]: (TimeMachine)
  [com.apple.TimeMachine.TMLogError] -[FileAttrs
  writeAttributesToItemAtPath:] setattrlist failed for path
  '/.MobileBackups/Computer/2016-10-27-161316/Volume/Library/Preferences'
  (errno 1)

The errors are slightly different only at the end (/.MobileBackups/Computer...)

Ultimately, the backup takes days before the connection to the server is reset for some reason and the backup fails to complete.

What are these errors and what do I need to do to fix this?


texts: How can I see everything authorized to use my Apple ID?

texts: Does Apple only provide you with information about what devices are currently signed into your Apple ID account?  Is it possible and how can I see all devices, computers, Home Sharing, Audible websites, AirPlay devices, Sharing, and all the other things that have ever been authorized to use my Apple ID?


texts: Does a TIme Machine backup directory contain full or incremental data?

texts:
I'm having trouble browsing another Time Machine disk. (The regular Time Machine interface doesn't show anything at all.) I can, however, browse the external Time Machine disk's directories. I plan to put the restored data on a second external drive.

Can I restore the entire user folder from the last directory and feel that I've got all the files from the last time machine backup? Or are the contents in that directory an incremental backup?


texts: Why won't transferred video files get detected in PlayerXtreme iPad app?

texts:
I just bought an iPad. I have been Windows and Android user all my life.
In Android I could just transfer a video file to the device and any video player such as VLC or MXPlayer would automatically detect it.

I transferred a few video files to my iPad from my Windows PC using iTunes software's file sharing option. I installed PlayerXtreme on my iPad but I can't find any video files in it.

How do I make it work?


texts:
I've downloaded Cyberduck for Mac. I'm using Mojave 10.14.6 and Cyberduck 7.2.2

I have a google drive 2T account (Google One now) and my Google Backup and Sync is working fine.

I open cyberduck and click on New Connection->Google Drive and I click on Connect

A Chorme page opens where I select my account, and I get the following message:

Sign in with google temporarily disabled for this app
This app has not been verified yet by Google in order to use Google Sign In

Any ideas of what is going on and how to solve?


texts: Unable to start screen sharing remotely on macOS Catalina after update

texts:
Until one of the latest Catalina updates, I was able to (re)start Screen Sharing using the following command:

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -restart -agent && sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -allowAccessFor -specifiedUsers && sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -configure -users user_name -access -on -privs -ControlObserve

However, after one of the last couple of Catalina updates this fails. To be more specific, if I run the command I don't get any errors, but the Screen Sharing daemon is not launched, so I cannot remotely connect to my Mac. This still works in other Macs running High Sierra, but not in Catalina. Does anybody have any idea what might have changed in the last updates, or how to fix this?


texts: Trackpad working poorly on Macbook, why?

texts: I have a Macbook 2007. It has worked very well until now, the trackpad does not respond at all, it simply stopped working. How can I debug this?


texts: Where to find a list of purchased books in the Amazon Kindle app for iPad?

texts:
In the current version of the Kindle app for iPad OS 13, I cannot find any list of books I have previously purchased.

I found a hamburger menu item for “Lists”, but that shows a blank page.

Where should I be looking?


texts: Set up global shortcuts for media keys (next, prev, play/pause)

texts:
I've had the (mis)fortune to get a new work laptop with the O' so great Touch Bar which I so immensely hate and have changed the Touch Bar to display F-keys.
However one thing I do miss is my global Media Keys. I'm primarily listen to Spotify and I know it has shortcuts but that requires me to make the Spotify window active which it rarely is.

I've looked into both Google and the shortcut options Apple provides me and I have yet to find a way to set up a global shortcut for the Media Keys (Next, Prev. Play/Pause)

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Organizing Favourites in Finder with Symlinks and colons

texts:
On my machine I have repeating patterns of directories.

E.g,:

notes/2019-01
records/expenses/2019-01
records/taxes/2019-01
customer/project/notes/2019-01

Links in the Favourites bar show up as:

2019-01
2019-01
2019-01
2019-01

To get around this, I'm creating symlinks to point to the folders I'm regularly using.

MacOS lets me rename the symlink in the gui, and it seems to accept unusual characters, even '/'.

so I can create symlinks like:

notes/01
exp/01
tax/01
proj/notes/01

But... on the command prompt, the '/' is a ':', which is a surprise.  I've not seen this done in other Unixes.. maybe I've never noticed.

Is there a pitfall to this? am I tempting fate with slashes and colons here?


texts: Want to wipe and donate very old mac - but no original disc

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Two older Macs (G3 / Intel) need their drives erased. No install discs

I have a mac from 2002 or so, and want to wipe it and give it away.  No idea where the original disk is.  Any idea how to wipe it?


texts: How can I use Windows via Parallels or Fusion with MINIMAL HARD DISK space?

texts: I would like to use VMWare Fusion or Parallels (or another option for running Windows within OSX; not Wine), but I am concerned about the hard disk space requirements.  How can I reduce the hard disk usage when creating a new Windows WM?


texts: In OS X, how does manually sandboxing an application from the internet compare to blocking it with Little Snitch?

texts:
I want to prevent inbound and outbound connections to one application. I can buy Little Snitch if it's the best option, but it feels like I wouldn't be getting much value out of it for that one use.

I've been trying to read up on OSX's ability to manually sandbox applications from functions you can specify. I'm wondering if this is something worth pursuing - meaning will it be as good (or more effective) than Little Snitch to block one application only, and how complex is it to set up for an OS X novice?

I've been trying to work out exactly how to go about this. 'man sandbox-exec' probably tells me all I need to know, but I need more dumbed-down steps of the whole process if possible.


texts:
I recently purchased one of the new core i7 Macbook Airs and in most respects its amazing.  The one problem is that the battery life is far less than the "up to 7 hours" Apple claims.  In moderate usage, no flash or video, it lasts about 2.5 hours, maybe.   I use the istat menu monitoring tool and don't see much CPU usage, the fan isn't running constantly, and poking around with the Activity Monitor doesn't show anything unusual, so I'm pretty sure I don't have any rogue processes running.   I have flash disabled in Safari, so I don't think that's the culprit either.

My questions are...

What battery life do other Macbook Air owners see?   I'm guessing a trip to the genius bar is in my future, has anyone seen similar problems?  If you have, do the support guys give you a new laptop, replace the battery, or tell you there's nothing they can do?


texts:
Is there a way to set Instagram as default camera app on iPhone?

So that I can open it from the lock screen?


texts: MacBookPro9,2 does not recognize drive as bootable after clean Install

texts:
The original hard drive stopped working, so I got a new SSD (Crucial MX300, 275GB, part number CT275MX300SSD1) to put into the MacBook Pro and make a clean install of macOS.
Installation of High Sierra using an USB drive looked like it went through well, but when the MacBook Pro rebooted, it got to a screen where it just shows a flashing folder icon with a question mark inside.
After that failed, I tried a second time using Network Recovery and installed Mountain Lion. Same flashing folder icon after reboot. NVRAM reset did not fix the issue.
After wiping the drive once again, I immediately ran a volume check using Disk Utility and it told me that the volume was damaged.
Output of diskutil verifyVolume disk1s2:
Started file system verification on disk1s2 Macintosh SSD
Check file system
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume
Checking extents overflow file
The volume Macintosh SSD could not be verified completely
Error: -69845: File system verify or repair failed
Underlying error: 8: POSIX reports: Exec format error

So maybe the issue lies on the SSD itself?


texts: How to enable backtap to switch on Safari Reader View using Shortcuts in iOS?

texts:
iOS14.2

Create shortcut to enable 'reader view on' and another for 'reader view off'
Enable shortcuts via backtap functionality (two taps for the 'on shortcut', three for the 'off shortcut')

I have no idea how to do '1.' because when I look in the shortcut options, there doesn't seem to be anything within safari to switch the reader on and off.
I figure this would be a nice feature when you're holding the phone one-handed as the 'reader view' button is hard to reach and requires more than one action.


texts: iPhone scam message - did not open picture but pressed preview

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I have made a mistake tonight. I received a picture message, saying "free picture message - click to open'. I did not click the link in the message, but I did click "preview". Nothing happened on my phone afterwards and I didn't get taken to any websites (or Safari).

I Googled the phone number that sent me the message afterwards and realised the message was from spammers. I am asking if anybody knows what it means to "preview" the message on an iPhone - has it downloaded it to your phone?

Any help would be gratefully received - thank you.


texts: How can I prevent the App Store from doing automatic update checks or notifications?

texts:
I don't like the App Store app automatically checking for app updates, or showing me notifications when there are updates for my installed apps.  I prefer to take care of updates when I'm ready to update.

How can I prevent the App Store from automatically checking from updates, or from giving me the the little red notification when updates are available?

I've got an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1.


texts: Is "Delete Duplicate" offered by iTunes Match different from simple deletion?

texts:
After enabling iTunes Match, songs that are recognized as duplicates are marked with an icon:

Clicking on this icon brings up a dialog offering to delete the duplicate:

Does "Delete Duplicate" do anything different from simply deleting the file in the usual way? In particular, since this approach does not support deletion of multiple files, can one simply select all files marked as duplicates and delete them to achive the same effect as clicking on these icons one by one?


texts: Is there a key command to shift Apple Mail focus to top?

texts:
This one drives me crazy...

If you search in Apple Mail, you likely end up way back in time in your list of emails. When I am ready to read new email I have to scroll, scroll, scroll to the top of the list again.

There HAS to be a key command or something I am missing to instantly jump to the top of the list.

Is there?


texts: Unable to block contact on iMessage for Mac OS 10.14.2

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I am unable to block a contact on my mac's iMessage app (Mac OS 10.14.2).

I go to preferences > imessage > blocked > + , and then a drop down of my contacts appears. I select the name from the list but then the list just disappears and nothing is added to the blocked list. (And yes they are still able to contact me).

Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?


texts: A file viewer like in Total Commander / Krusader

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I use DoubleCommander, which is a decent 2-panel file manager.
What I am missing is a viewer for the use case of peeking at a text file, especially logs:

quick to load
handles large text files (GBs)
handles page up/down
allows find / next / previous / highlight

remembers the searched strings

zoom, ideally with Control + mouse wheel
capable of closing with "esc"
capable of reloading the file on demand (F5)

remembers the position over reloads

ideally, configurable key shortcuts
etc.

In short, something to quickly open the file, find a string, have it open, reload when necessary at roughly the same place. Developers will find this very familiar.

Is there such app? Sublime it aint, File Viewer neither, jEdit neither, TextEdit neither... I've tried quite a lot of them but there's always some blocker.

Both Krusader and Total Commander have great viewers, so I believe Mac community produced one, too. (Not counting running Total Commander in Wine :)


texts: How can I write an Apple Script in order to check if bluetooth and ethernet are on or off?

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I'm trying to write a little script in order to check whether or not bluetooth is on and whether or not an ethernet cable is plugged in. I searched the System Preference dictionary built in the app but it seems there isn't any help about checking if the bluetooth is on or off.

Can anyone help me?
Best Regards
Simone Piersigilli


texts: Native Email App & Office 365 - very slow

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our team recently switched to Office 365 (and we use IOS 13.4). Some of us can use the native IOS App as usual.
Others run into problems: Emails seem to arrive only after a relativly long waiting period and oppening the email takes several minutes as well.

If they use a different app (the outlook app), it works much faster.
Has anyone any ideas? Or come across this before?


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I have some automated tasks in the form of AppleScripts which I would schedule to run overnight via an iCal event.  The event would simply be set to "run script" at "0 minutes before the event" and I'd select the various scripts to run.

Ever since upgrading to Mountain Lion, however, "run script" is now just "open file" and the scripts don't run, they just open in AppleScript Editor.

I tried compiling the scripts into applications to see if I could select those to be opened instead, but they're not available to select from the event (they're greyed out).

How can I get Calendar to run my scripts?
Conversely, is there a better way to schedule scripts to run?


texts: El Capitan "Paste and Match Style" not working in Microsoft Word

texts: I want to set up my computer to paste unformatted text by default. When I try to do this (following the advise of several online guides) my paste no longer works. I went to keyboard > shortcuts > app shortcuts > +. See my changes below. When I try command+v in Microsoft Word, nothing happens. What went wrong here? Is there a way I can make this work in Microsoft Word?


texts:
Trying to do a manual backup of a 64Gb iPhone to an Mac Book Pro running Mountain Lion, iTunes stated that there wasn't enough disk space.

I deleted enough files so that Finder reports almost 95Gb free.

iTunes still states that there isn't enough space. On closer inspection, Disk Utility reports only about 20Gb free.

I've repaired disk permissions and verified and fixed the disk, booted in Recovery mode, but the reports are still the same.

I should have enough space, but clearly something is wrong here. Can someone please tell me what I can do to get the reporting correct and consistent?


texts: How do I fix the email counter on the tag below the task bar?

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In the mail window, you can put a tag to your mail boxes below the taskbar (see screenshot) that you can click to go to that mailbox.  The tag has a number indicating the number of unread messages.

For me, this number is always wrong.

I have tried:
1. Erasing deleted messages
2. Rebuilding the mailboxes
3. Moving messages in and out of the mail box

to no avail.

Yes, it is a small thing, but it should work and if there is an easy way to fix it, I would.


texts: How can I allow a non-root user to use ports below 1024?

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I am working with an application that utilizes a port below 1024 because it was originally intended to be run as root.  I would like to debug the app in an IDE which I open as myself (non-root user) but I do have sudo privileges.  I have reasons against remote debugging as well as opening the IDE under sudo.

So the only way for me to do this would be to allow a non-root user to use ports or a port below 1024.  Can that be done and how?


texts: Samsung V-Nand SSD 850 EVO 1TB not working

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I have a Macbook Pro Medio 2012, 15 Inch Non Retina.
It was running on a normal 750G HDD, but i wanted an upgrade, so i bought the Samsung V-Nand 850 EVO SSD 1TB.

I created a Bootable El-Capitan USB Stick, so i could do a clean install.
After i swapped the HDD with the Samsung SSD, i plugged in my Bootable USB stick and turned on my macbook.

First it shows the apple logo with a loading line.
after that i gives me a "stop sign". A circle with a line running through it.

I also tried pressing the Command button while it starts up, but that didn't work.

I'm trying to clean install El Capitan on my Macbook pro.

Does anyone know what to do?

Kind regards in advance!


texts: Is there a video app which can position subtitles over black bars?

texts:
I've been happily using VLC for all video playback but now realised it's missing a feature I think is quite essential – having subtitles placed on the black bar below a movie instead of in the actual picture where it wastes screen real estate and annoys. VLC has a 'Force subtitle position' option which does not do anything useful with negative values. MPlayerX allows adjusting the position relative to the bottom, again, no use for negative values.

Can anyone suggest a player that can do this?


texts:
Since I changed the directory structures of my Mac, Spotlight has not successfully produced search results for my files or folders.

I have tried

Killing SystemUIServer
Rebuilding the Spotlight Index manually using sudo mdutil -E /
Changing Desktop Resolution

Clear caches and preferences using downloaded application

Rebooting Mac

All suggested in this to no effect. 4th item was recommended against on Apple Support Community. And of course, I tried what was suggested by seaturtle.. reindexing Macintosh HD.

Using terminal with the right keywords, the files/folders come up, but I would like to fix permanently.

Has anyone got other idea? Kindly let me know.

I currently use Macbook Pro of 2012, OS: High Sierra 10.13.2


texts: Using a Magic Trackpad and a USB mouse at the same time

texts:
I know that the Magic Trackpad is not good for a few things (I personally don’t like trackpads in general too much when I’m on a laptop). I tend to start looking for a mouse. (18 years of mousing around may be too much for my old brain).

However, there are certain things about the Magic Trackpad, that could be handy and that are virtually impossible with a mouse. I don’t like the Magic Mouse because you have to lift your “left button click finger” to perform a right click. (I’ve tried it for a while).

So I was thinking, has anyone connected a Magic Trackpad and a USB mouse at the same time, is it possible to have both (and working) and move the hand to either when needed?

Anyone experienced this?


texts: shortcut to open multiple programmes and have them open a specific file

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When writing code for web i need to have several programmes and files open at the same time, i need :

project folder open in sublime text
terminal open and on a specific directory
tower (git client) open on the correct project
mamp open and running
browser open and on to local server url

It takes me a few minutes to setup each time, is there a way i can automate these so that with one action all will open and be in the correct configuration ?

Im running osx 10.10


texts: 2017 15" MBP & UHD TV: 4k60Hz *very* intermittent

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I have the MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017), a Samsung 4k display, and a USB-C to HDMI cable between them (plugged directly into the computer).

The entire setup supports everything necessary. Please don't say they need to be compatible.

After a lot of fiddling, I get it to do 4k@60Hz and it works perfectly - even piped the audio.

Then, something will happen - power flicker, I turn off/on the TV, take my laptop somewhere else, act of god occurs, whatever - and the computer will suddenly forget it can use 4k@60Hz.

Sometimes this is fixed by repeatedly unplugging/plugging-in the display, most times not.

I have the command-line utility screenresolution. Sometimes OS-X decides to use 30Hz even when it knows 60Hz is available. This utility can then change it for me.

Sometimes (like right now) I want to throw this computer off the roof because it refuses to believe it supports 4k@60Hz.

This is independent of OS-X version, independent of TV (this same issue happened with a TCL TV), and independent of cable (happened with a different brand of cable).

I tried some system-preferences extension which required me to turn off SIP to manually add custom modes, and that sometimes worked - but also sometimes caused the HDMI audio to not work, so I got rid of that.

How do I convince OS X that the monitor does and always will support 4k @ 60Hz?

In case it matters, I also have (on a different USB-C port) a USB-C/TB3 hub and its display-port output goes to the MDP-to-dual-link-dvi-adatper to a 30" Cinema Display, so I have the 4k@60Hz TV, the 30" Cinema Display, and the laptops display all acting as non-mirrored monitors.

This is the [active] cable I’m using:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075V5JK36/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_3g9hBbY6VM4X5


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This is a problem that has bugged me for the last 5 years, across multiple devices, operating systems and installs of iTunes and iPods.

I have found that the iTunes shuffle feature does not randomly shuffle songs. In fact, I can accurately predict the exact sequence of songs that iTunes will play. This frustrates me to no end because I like to listen to my music randomly, but I have a few favourite songs that I always start out with.

For example, if I select the song 'Somebody That I Used To Know' by Gotye, it will always follow with this exact sequence of songs:

Blame It On The Tetons by Modest Mouse
Girl You Have No Faith In Medicine by The White Stripes
Mombassa by Hans Zimmer, from the Inception Soundtrack
Break of Dawn by Michael Jackson
Missing Words by Mark Ronson and the Business International

The method I use to start the songs does not matter. I have tried selecting the song in iTunes, searching for it and playing it with Coversutra, or searching for it from within iTunes, playing the song and then clearing the search. All three methods will play the exact same sequence of songs.

I thought this might be due to the same seed being used, but I get the same sequence after restarting iTunes or even my computer. The sequence is the same across different days as well. Waiting for the song to finish or hitting next does not change anything either.

I have had this problem (but with different sequences) for as long as I can remember on my Windows PC, MacBook and my iMac. All different versions of iTunes and operating systems, spanning 5 years.

Why does iTunes fail so hard and something that is so easy? Is there any way I can fix this?


texts: Disk image creation from folder: error 28 - no space left on device

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I wanted to create a full copy of my MacBook Air in a disk image for archive.
I can't save the disk from the booted system, so I restarted my Mac in Recovery mode (keys Command and R) on boot.
From the recovery menu, I can launch Disk Utility, I select the 'Macintosh HD' drive, give the image a name, select the options "not compressed" and "read only". I select the destination disk and let the process begins...
After a long time, just before ending the process, I have a message "error 28: No space left on Device".

My MBA has a 250 GB SSD disk, I have a 50 GB iCloud account, so in the case iCloud Drive is saved too (I don't think so...), there is just about maximum 300 GB to save.
I tried to save on a Drobo (which claims being 64 TB in size, and have more than 2TB free), and on an empty 1TB Drive, and had the same result.


texts: We use Apple MDM at the small school I work at to manage our iPads.  In the past we would download the .ipa from the App Store then upload it to the MDM then deploy it to the iPads.  With the new updates we can't figure out a way to download the .ipa files?  Can anyone help?  (I will add we are not in the US and do not have access to VPP.)


texts: Is there a way to get "Spaces" set to remain on a relative display?

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I have dual monitor set-ups at both my work office and my home office, but when I move between them, the "Spaces" sets flip between the two external monitors.  (This has consistently happened despite changing cable arrangements, and even when setting up a new pair of monitors at my office.)

Is there a way to get "Spaces" sets to remain on their relative displays?

     Work Office             Home Office
     -----------             -----------
┌─────────┬─────────┐   ┌─────────┬─────────┐
│  Left   │  Right  │   │  Left   │  Right  │
│ Display │ Display │   │ Display │ Display │
│ ------- │ ------- │   │ ------- │ ------- │
│ Spaces  │ Spaces  │   │ Spaces  │ Spaces  │
│ *set A* │ *set B* │   │ *set B* │ *set A* │ <-- unwanted flip-flop
├─────────┴─────────┤   ├─────────┴─────────┤
│  MacBook Display  │   │  MacBook Display  │
│   Spaces set C    │   │   Spaces set C    │
└───────────────────┘   └───────────────────┘


texts: iPhoto does not recognise the photos on the SD card of my new camera.

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I am running Lion on iMac and iPhoto is up to date.  my new camera is a sony a6000.  The photos show up in the import window, even with an image of the camera, but when I ask iPhoto to import them it comes up with a message saying Unreadable Files - file is in unrecognised format. The photos are RAW but I've never had a  problem importing RAW files before. This is what the file is displaying as in the unreadable files window.
/Users/SueHewett/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Import/Masters/Roll 1/_DSC2044.ARW


texts: How to erase my iPhone photos completely?

texts: I decided to delete all of my iPhone's photos so I copied everything to iPhoto and deleted everything on my phone. But I still worry if somebody could recover my deleted photos from my iPhone? Does this method completely erase my photos on iPhone?


texts: OSX: Dupe-checking / Merging / Cleaning iCloud Contacts & importing 350 additional ones

texts:
I'm in a bit of a pickle, I've been given an errand (or.. so I thought ;) ) to run, of cleaning up 1100 iCloud Contacts for a friend, who runs a little business. He also handed me 350 additional contacts in Excel Sheets to be added to his iCloud Contacts. (3 Excel files, 3 groups in iCloud Contacts, so he can switch between them).

Now, I can probably "kind of" pull off the Excel->CSV->Import to iCloud Contacts business, but there is a lot of data that needs to be merged into a Notes-entry inside the Contacts  and to be made sure it's not lost. But I would appreciate any and all advice you could give on how to export a reasonable CSV that Contacts (I'm running OSX Mavericks, btw) where multicolumn content that goes into Notes  will actually go into the Notes in Contacts.

But here's the real thing. Since he has a completely utterly borked up 1100+ contacts list with multiple duplicates, some entries with no names but just phone numbers, maybe duplicate names with differing e-mail addresses etc, which app or method would you recommend for cleaning it up?

I tried to google around for apps but all I could find was a fake website that (supposedly) listed 5 excellent Contacts -cleaning applications..

But when I started downloading the #1, I realised I was downloading it from the same server the website was running on - so it was I believe Cisdem that wrote the blog-entry masquerading as a reasonable review of all possible Contacts-managing applications. Now I'm not so convinced that I should try Cisdem at all, if they do shady things like that, I've never had good experiences with these types of fake-review-posting app developers' sites.

How should I proceed?


texts: Put a preinstalled macOS SSD to another MacBook, will this occur any problem?

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I hope you're doing well.

I have 2 MacBook Pros, different models, same size 15", 2010 and 2012. The 2012 one is suddenly dead and I have removed its SSD and put it into the 2010 one (HDD on 2010 is also removed). After then, I turned on the 2010 MBP, it works like a charm. There are still some minor weird activities: asks me to login again to iCloud, Firefox new addons popup, Photoshop warning about VRAM... but most of the system is working smoothly.

So my concern is, will the SSD change occur any problem later? Can I do a Time Machine backup without any damage in the future? Thank you for any help.


texts: Keyboard shortcut to select text *in a browser (Chrome)* till the end (or beginning) of a line

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Looking for a keyboard shortcut to select text in a browser (Chrome) till the end (or beginning) of a line.

According to Apple Support the keyboard shortcut

SHIFT-CMD-RIGHTARROW is meant to

  Select the text between the insertion point and the end of the current
  line.

This works well in MS Word and text editors, but fails in web browsers. I am aware of the Emacs shortcut CMD-E (see this answer) - but this behaves differently: it will select the text till the next "line break character", not till the end of a visible line. I.e., if there is an "automatic" line break in the browser which is not because of a corresponding line break in the HTML source code, the Emacs-like command will select the whole block, typically until the end of the current paragraph, not only the text till the "visible line break".

In contrast, in-text editors or MS Word, SHIFT-CMD-RIGHTARROW will select text only till the end of the "visible line". It also works in text boxes in the browser (like the one you use to create a question or answer here), but unfortunately not in "normal web pages".


texts: How do I find what packages I've installed via terminal?

texts:
I've been learning the shell for a few weeks and have installed several packages. I know/remember what some of them are, like oh-my-zsh and emacs 24 (which was a nightmare to upgrade to), but not sure sure about what else. I've used different methods like curl, wget and Macports.

My question is, if and when I want to do a clean installation of MacOS, how do I backup or script a fresh installation of these packages? In other words, when I do a new install of MacOS I won't be restoring from Time Machine using Migration Assistant: rather I'll install the system and manually restore files. How do I know the installation paths and dependancies of what I've installed in my previous installation using the command line? Is there a txt file somewhere that the system maintains to keep track of what has been installed?

(MacOS 10.8.2)


texts: Superdrive doesn't accept disks any more

texts:
I have two Superdrives. Since the upgrade to 10.11 (it might just coincide) they don't accept disks any more. I tried rebooting, sending eject commands to both drives etc.

They appear as "Unsupported" in drutil but look fine in "About This Mac" Storage.

   $ drutil list
   Vendor   Product           Rev   Bus       SupportLevel
1  Apple    SuperDrive        2.00  USB       Unsupported
2  Apple    SuperDrive        2.00  USB       Unsupported

I tried running drutil against both with all sorts of parameters (getconfig, info etc.).

I also tried rebooting the Mac and disconnnecting it from power for a minute. (It's a Late 2013 iMac.)

Update

Found this Apple support community thread: Superdrive not loading discs after upgrading to El Capitan

And I did try the drives with my AirBook (also El Capitan) as well with the same result.


texts: I'm not sure if I should buy an SSD for my iMac 21.5" Mid 2011 alongside the internal 500GB hard drive. First Question: Should I replace the CD drive with an SSD or use an external (Thunderbolt) one? Is that hard, and is it easy to keep all the applications and system data on the SSD, while storing media on the HD? And should I buy an SSD now or wait for maybe a year until cheaper and better SSDs come out? Thanks!


texts: Safari on iMac (Mojave) can't resolve http://.local

texts:
Safari 12.0 on my 2017 iMac cannot resolve local computer names. In my particular case the  computer is a RaspberryPi with a default web page.

If I put "pi-star.local" in the Safari address box, I receive "Safari can't open the page pi-star.local because the server unexpectedly dropped the connection". Safari loads the webpage if I put in the ip address instead.

pi-star.local works fine in Chrome and Firefox and webpage loads. I can also ping pi-star.local in terminal.

I have checked the Discovery App (for Bonjour from the Mac App Store) and can see pi-star.local listed.

Any suggestions?


texts:
I used ssh-keygen -t ecdsa to generate an ECDSA key, but  I got the error
unknown key type ecdsa.

man ssh-keygen says:

 -t type
         Specifies the type of key to create.  The possible values are ``rsa1''
         for protocol version 1 and ``dsa'', ``ecdsa'' or ``rsa'' for
         protocol version 2.

Does anyone have any insight on this?


texts: Apple’s podcast app will share statistics/analytics with creators and advertisers - how to opt-out (protect privacy)?

texts:
I use on AppleTV and iOS the podcast app weekly. In headlines there were sad news about privacy Apple is going to let podcast creators — and advertisers — see what listeners actually like:

  A new version of Apple’s podcast app will provide basic analytics to
  podcast creators, giving them the ability to see when podcast
  listeners play individual episodes, and — crucially — what part of
  individual episodes they listen to, which parts they skip over and
  when they bail out of an episode.

  The reason all of that is important is that up until now, Apple has
  provided almost no data at all about podcast listening behavior — just
  the fact that someone has downloaded an individual episode.

How to opt-out of the data collection? Is there no other way than change Podcast client?


texts: How can I use NTFS-3G installed using MacPorts?

texts:
After upgrading to Lion I'm having problem mounting NTFS drives in read/write mode. This is because NTFS-3G distributed by Tuxera does not work with Lion.

At their suggestion I installed NTFS-3G using MacPorts. But as far as I can see it does not come with the usual preference pane. Its not enabled by default.

Do anyone know how to enable it? Or how to have the Preference Pane for the NTFS-3G from MacPorts?


texts:
I am facing a very annoying problem from last few days. Whenever I try to install an app from my Mac to my iPad it says:

  This computer is no longer authorised for purchased items

but when I try to authorise this computer, it says:

  This computer is already authorised


texts: Where does gmail/Apple Mail keep its messages?

texts:
I have several email accounts on a Mac.

With a simple IMAP account, the messages are in /Users/[user name]/Library/Mail/V[a number]/IMAP-[email adress]/INBOX.mbox/

However, Apple Mail seems to hide the messages away differently if you are using gmail. If I go to the same folder scheme -- nothing there.

Ideas?

More specifically, I am looking for a way to find only the Sent messages. I have been able to locate an ALL messages folder at:

/Users/[user name]/Library/Mail/V3/IMAP-[email address]@imap.gmail.com/[Gmail].mbox/All Mail.mbox/

But how do I separate out the sent messages?

The Sent Mail.mbox directory only has a .plist file in it even though there are thousands of sent messages. Doing a file count on the All Mail.mbox makes clear that that is literally all the mail (sent, received, drafts, etc) Looking at the .emlx header it is not obvious what would differentiate one from the other.


texts: (Catalina) Is there a progress status when updating iPhone?

texts:
In the new Catalina MacOS iPhone interface (from the Finder).

Is there a way to see the progress (numerical or percentage) of the iPhone update download and update?

Currently, there's only a spinning indicator next to the iPhone entry in the Finder.


texts:
I use VMWare with a Win 7 virtual machine.

I have a late 2012 iMac with 20GB of RAM. I use Windows for ...

running Groupwise constantly
using Respondus occasionally
Explorer (please don't judge--I have to test Blackboard LMS occasionally)
 :-)

What is the appropriate size for it to run in?


texts:
I recently renewed my iOS developer membership and noticed that my free app, which has been available in the store for a year, is now in Pending Contract status. There is no information whatsoever of what conditions have changed and what I need to renew/enter/accept. Note that my app is free, so I shouldn't need to enter bank details, tax information, etc.

On the Agreements, Tax, and Banking page I can see that the "iOS Free Applications" contract has expired but there is no button to renew it. Has this type of contract been discontinued? Do I really have to enter my bank details and tax number even for a free app?


texts: Having recently upgraded my machine to Mountain Lion, I realized that there is no iChat app anymore and that everything ended up into the Messages app. I've been using a @mac.com account specifically to access iChat, so what happens to this account now? Has it become useless?


texts: Are applications required to be installed to the /Applications folder in order to be sandboxed?

texts:
I have an application installed in the ~/Applications folder. I've been using it for years with no problems. But after a recent update this application started giving me warnings that it should be installed in the main /Applications folder. But still it is working just fine, and I see no reasons to move it out from where it is now (aside from this annoying warning).

So I asked the application's support team, why do they want me to have their application installed exactly in /Applications, and here's the answer they gave me:

  In order to be fully sandboxed the application must be installed into the /Applications folder

Is it really so? Mac OS sandboxes only applications installed in the /Applications? Is it stated somewhere in Apple's documentation? I could only find this article (the section about launching helpers).

And additional question: does it mean that ~/Applications (or any other) folder is "less secure" then for installing applications?

[Update]

I've got another answer from support: now they're saying that it's sandboxing and access to code signature verification API what requires them to have their application installed exactly at /Applications. I've posted a Stack Overflow question about that.


texts: Opening HomeScreen Web App with a Shortcut?

texts:
I added a full screen HTML web app to my home screen. Now I would like to open it with  the Shortcuts Apps. The html app can't be opened with the Shortcut 'Open App' since it's not listing HTML apps or with the Shortcut ‘Open in Safari’ since this open the URL simply in Safari including the Safari UI, but not in standalone full screen.

Is there a way to open a full screen HTML app that has a shortcut on my iOS home screen with Shortcuts?

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html


texts: I have 21.5GB free. Why won't my MacBook Air 2010 let me use Boot Camp?

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I'm trying to install Windows 7 on my MBA, 2010.

I open up Boot Camp and attempt to use it, but after the first screen it comes up with an error saying it can't install unless theirs 10GB of free disk space. Right now my HDD has 21.5 GB free. Disk Utility won't let me partition my drive either, so a manual install is out of the question.

I need help! My original thoughts were that my disk needed to be defragged to get 10GB of contiguous space. Is this a possibility?


texts: Getting strange characters in third party apps. How do I fix it?

texts: I don't really know how to explain this problem, so i'll just show some screenshots. GIMP is completely unusable. it looks like it's in another language. Visual Studio does it too, but only in certain cases. even safari has become a problem. That leads me to believe that it's an OS issue. Strange characters appear randomly where normal english text should be. Can anybody help?


texts: Use the column order in Finder List view for all folders

texts:
In my list view, I keep only four columns: Name, Date Modified, Size, Kind

By default, Kind is the last column. With a mouse/trackpad, I can finely rearrange its position where I like it: in the second column. The final result is: Name, Kind, Date Modified, Size.

When I change folder though, the ‘Kind’ column comes back to the fourth position. Is there a way of keeping a default arrangement for columns in Finder List View?


texts: Prevent disk image automount when clicking Finder sidebar

texts:
I have been playing around with the View → View Options in Finder and I must have touched something crtitcal because now whenever I click on a folder in Finder it automounts a disk image located on my external hard drive. The image is located in /Volumes/elements/App/myapp.dmg.

If I unplug the external hard drive, everything is back to normal. But when the external  hard drive is connected, it happens again.

I could remove the file, but I want to find a better solution.

Edit: It does not matter if I move the dmg to another location (i.e: I move it to /Users/charasoverride/app.dmg), it gets automounted as well.

Update: It does not happen for every folder but it does for sidebar items. (Favourites, Devices, etc.)


texts:
I use spaces with 10.9. I run a few applications in full screen mode. While focused on an application in full screen mode every minute or so I switched back to the first space. This happens with no input on my behalf.

I suspected it was an application in the background taking focus. I shut down all applications that do this and have also disabled space switching on application focus. After a reset the issue persists.

I noticed that the tool bar glitches out after the switch happens. It feels like a bug because when the application is not in full screen mode the icons on my desktop will disappear for a split second and then reappear. This seems to be happening with the same frequency as the space switching issue. Has anyone en-counted this? Is there a fix? It's driving me nuts!


texts: MacBook Pro Cannot Connect to Certain/Some WiFi

texts:
My MacBook Pro (2011), with OS X Mavericks, can connect to WiFi in some U.S. homes perfectly fine, but not other homes in the U.S. The "bad home" with WiFi where it fails to connect has other computers (not Macs) that can easily connect to its WiFi.

I have tried restarting the WiFi router in the "bad home" but it doesn't fix the problem. I have also tried using the WiFi Diagnostic Tool (starting with the exclamation mark) twice, but it couldn't solve the problem either.

What could be wrong?


texts: How to remotely access a Mac from my iOS app?

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I'd like to remotely access a Mac mini from my iPad app.   The simplest method appears to be via SSH but I've read this requires jailbreaking the iPad and I don't want that.   Is there an 'Apple approved' method to so this?

I don't currently need access via the internet, just via the local network.   Note that some changes will require password authentication; passwords can be encrypted in the iPad app to ensure security isn't compromised over the network.


texts: Unable to Project MacBook Pro Screen to Old iMac

texts:
I have a new MacBook Pro which I am not able to connect to my old iMac so I can use iMac as my secondary monitor.
Details of MacBook and iMac
MacBook Pro:  13-inch, 2019, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports
iMac: 21.5 inch Mid 2011
Here is what I did but that didn't work:

Put a Thunderbolt cord into iMac and attached it to a Thunderbolt to HDMI Adapter
Connected a new HDMI cord to the adapter (from iMac) to the MacBook Pro adapter
Pressed Command + F2 on iMAC
Nothing happened

Please help.


texts: Disable spell checking only for specific section of text in Pages '13

texts:
I know, you can disable automatic Spell checking for the entire document (Edit->Spelling and Grammar->Check Spelling While Typing) but I want to disable it just for the text in that specific text box (it's code, so it will underline nearly everything which makes reading it very hard...).
Is there any way to do that in Pages 5.2?


texts: iPhone photos app says storage is full but Settings says 20 gb avail

texts:
I have icloud with 200gb storage.  iCloud shows it has 30 gb available.  My iPhone photos app says "Update Paused.  Not Enough iPhone Storage".  There's a "Manage Storage" link, which brings you to the iPhone Settings>Storage.  There, it shows the phone has ~20gb of storage left.

I can take pics, backup appears to be working.  Can't figure out if I should be doing something or if this is a bug.
Thanks!


texts:
My iPhone 4 has many photos. I would like to have them all uploaded to iCloud, but I don’t have an option to enable iCloud Photo Library.

How can I upload all my photos to iCloud?


texts: When using Internet Sharing is there any danger of IP address conflicts with the parent network?

texts:
I'm using Internet Sharing to share an Thunderbolt Ethernet connection over Wifi. Is there any danger of IP address conflicts with the devices the on the parent LAN?

Can devices on the parent LAN ping or directly communicate with the shared devices via their IP addresses?


texts: Messages - Is there a way to implement an "archive" feature?

texts:
For those of us for whom text messages often represent an undone or unorganized task, it would be helpful to have an archive feature in Messages apps. That way, we could see which messages have not yet been responded to or dealt with.

As it is, it's very easy to forget to respond.

Does anyone know of a solution?


texts: How to simulate keystroke in a GUI application programmatically?

texts:
On Windows I use AutoHotKey, I can create a GUI window that can be "Always On Top", I can create different Tabs that contain buttons with names that will send keystrokes/macros to a particular application or window id.

I need something to do this on Mac, can AppleScript do this or is there another solution?
The AHK GUI is on the left sending keystrokes/macros it can uses regex and cut/copied strings then modify and paste them.


texts: How to transfer applescript dictation commands to another mac

texts:
I have created a set of dictation commands in AppleScript. Now I want to move them to another computer. How can I do that?

The dictation commands created by Automator at do not seem to exist as files that I can find a copy. I don't know where they are.

In fact, when I open Automator I do not see the dictation commands that I have previously written.

Thanks for any help.


texts: How can I test access to encrypted (FileVault2) Time Machine partition?

texts:
I have my Time Machine backups going to an external disk, and all of it is encrypted with FileVault2. I plan to do a fresh install of Mavericks on my local hard drive, but before wiping the disk, I want to make sure that I can still access my Time Machine backups.

As mentioned in this other SO post, I should be able to use my FV key (and I vaguely remember using my account username/password to access data), but I want to be 100% sure.

Short of plugging this external drive into a separate OS X box (which I don't have), what else can I do to trigger the prompt for password/FV key/etc?  Would creating a new user on my machine be enough? Is there some Mavericks LiveCD mode (i.e. like Ubuntu)?


texts: Why don’t events created in iCal show up in my iCloud calendar?

texts:
Yesterday I installed Mac OS X 10.7.2, iOS5, and set up my iCloud.com account. I entered my iCloud details in System Preferences in Mac OS X, and in Settings on iOS. In both places, I set calendar syncing to “On”

However, I just created a test event in iCal, and it didn’t sync to iCloud.com or iOS. Events created on iOS sync to iCloud and iCal just fine.

What’s going on?


texts: Upgrading and selling my MacBook, how do I clean install Lion and iLife?

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I have a Unibody MacBook (late 2008) which shipped with Leopard (specs here).

When I sell it, I know I can move my data and settings to my new Laptop through Migration Assistant; for the new owner, I'd like to wipe everything except the standard software (plus all updates).

Given that the machine's original OS and install disks were 10.5.5 and iLife '09, what do I have to do sell it with Lion?

A) Just wipe everything except standard OS X apps + iLife?

or

B) Make a Lion USB drive (and give it to the buyer), and do and erase and install (or equivalent)

And if B) - How do I get iLife on there?


texts:
I'm storing the majority of my documents in Dropbox.
I store all my passwords in 1Password (with encrypted backup in Dropbox).

I also have a large pool of files (SSH keys, SSL certs, encryption keys) that are spread across several folders. Is there any software, that would allow me to easily copy the content of these folders (with subfolders) to Dropbox in encrypted form?


texts: Can the new iPad Pro magic keyboard used on Dvorak?

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I wonder if it is possible to use Dvorak layout on the new Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro. It would be even better if I can use it without installing any third-party keyboard applications.

Also, on Mac I swapped some keys (; and ') but can I also swap the keys at my will?


texts: Can iOS apps read your clipboard, and can it be stopped?

texts:
An article says that iOS apps have been caught reading data from user's clipboards:

researchers found the following iOS apps were reading users’ clipboard data every time the app was opened with no clear reason for doing so:

ABC News — com.abcnews.ABCNews
Al Jazeera English — ajenglishiphone
CBC News — ca.cbc.CBCNews
CBS News — com.H443NM7F8H.CBSNews
CNBC — com.nbcuni.cnbc.cnbcrtipad
Fox News — com.foxnews.foxnews

(51 more apps not shown for brevity)
Question
Are all iOS apps able to read the iPhone clipboard, and if so, how can I get a list of which apps are doing it, and be notified each time they do it?
Also note
By extension, macOS's 'handoff' feature allows apple devices share clipboards when within 10 feet of each other. So in addition to being able to read the iPhone's clipboard, are these iOS apps also able to read the user's MacBook's clipboard (whenever it's within 10 feet, as demonstrated in the youtube link below)?

This demonstrates how an iOS app with access to the clipboard can read not only the clipboard on the iPhone/iPad, but also on any MacBook or Mac within 10 feet (via 'handoff', which is 'On' by default on macOS devices).


texts: Apple Hardware Test doesn't run with original disk

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I have the original disks to my Macbook Pro mid-2010. Holding D or option-D at startup launches internet recovery, which ultimately gives error -3403D in both cases. (I was expecting only option-D to launch internet recovery.) The disk does seem to contain the correct AHT version (it is Mac-F22586C8). How can I run the local, non-internet, disk-based Apple Hardware Test?

Mac OS 10.12.6, 15-inch mid-2010 (MacbookPro6,2), Boot ROM: MBP61.0057.B1C, SMC: 1.58f17


texts: Network priority is not being observed—how to fix?

texts: I have my home network listed as highest priority in my list of Wifi networks, and my Karma Go (like a Mifi) listed way down the list, and yet I very frequently discover that I'm using my Karma Go when I'm at home and my home network is available and working just fine.  How can I get my Mac to work properly and always choose the higher-priority network over the lower-priority network?


texts: Can my laptop turn itself on after I've shut it down?

texts:
I have a MacBook air, practically new, no problems until now.
I usually just close the lid and the computer shuts itself down instead of entering sleep mode.
Friday night, I shut my laptop down properly and didn't turn it on until this Monday afternoon.
Except I didn't turn it on - it was already on.
It was on, and very hot, and had a flashing file icon with a question mark.

So my question is
How could my laptop turn itself on, heat up, and fry my hard drive?


texts: Converting macos dictionaries to portable format

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The best thing about macos is the dictionaries accessible from dictionary.app.  Is there a way to convert them to a format that is usable on other platforms as well (such as the dict format or the stardict format)?

Alternatively, is there a way to extract them into a plain text format?  (How are they stored anyway and where?)

PS
There is this

https://gist.github.com/josephg/5e134adf70760ee7e49d

for extracting word lists.  Perhaps it could be changed to extract the whole dictionaries as well?


texts: How to Set Custom Keyboard Shortcut to Adjust Volumes and Brightness

texts: Is there a way to setup custom keyboard shortcut to adjust volumes and brightness? I'm using a MacBook Pro with Touchbar and it's really hard to use.


texts: Mac Book Pro - 5 400 tr/min or 7 200 tr/min?

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I'm buying a mac book pro (this one: http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MC723LL/A?mco=MjEyOTY4OTQ).

My doubt is:

5400 tr/min 750Gb or
7200 tr/min 500Gb ?

I would appreciate the extra space but I'm afraid of the 5400 be really really slower than 7200.
What do you think?


texts: Applescript to compare two lists of domains and eliminate duplicates

texts:
I tried to do this with Automator and found it...lacking. I have tried to look for solutions everywhere else I can think of, but my searches keep pointing me to Applescript as the only available answer.

I need to automate this daily task that's very time consuming and have no idea how to do it in Applescript since I only started "learning" about it two days ago.

Hopefully someone here can help me out.

Here's what I want to do:

I have a master list of domains.
Compare the secondary list of domains I create everyday and have the duplicate entries removed (duplicates when compared to the master list).
Then after I have had a chance to copy the left-over (non-duplicate) domains, have them be added to the master list for tomorrow.

It seems simple enough for this non-programming mind of mine, but I can't seem to find an easy way of doing this anywhere.

If you can think of an easy way that I'm not thinking of, please do let me know. Or if you have that gifted touch with Applescript, please tell me how to do this.

Thank you kindly in advance.

Thomas


texts: Album purchased in iTunes but not in library

texts: Immediately after pressing "purchase" for an album in iTunes, a number "1" quickly flashes next to download icon at bottom of screen.  However, album never shows up in "purchased" or "downloaded" files or in my library. I hit "purchase" twice, same thing both times. I'm scared to keep trying, what if all of my purchase attempts suddenly go thru and it wipes all of my money from my iTunes account?!


texts: OSX Yosemite periodically loses DNS info for my server

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I'm running OSX Yosemite as my development machine. I run a VPS for the product I'm developing at cursiveclojure.com. Every so often (3 times now over the last month or so) my Mac somehow gets into a state where it can't resolve that domain, even though it seems to work from elsewhere and the server is available. So right now:

~/d/riddley (master)> ping cursiveclojure.com
ping: cannot resolve cursiveclojure.com: Unknown host
~/d/riddley (master)> dig cursiveclojure.com  ANY +noall +answer
; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> cursiveclojure.com ANY +noall +answer
;; global options: +cmd
cursiveclojure.com. 10799   IN  MX  10 cursiveclojure.com.
cursiveclojure.com. 10799   IN  A   95.170.82.135
cursiveclojure.com. 10799   IN  TXT "v=spf1 a mx ip4:95.170.82.135 ip6:2a01:7c8:aab0:51f::1 -all"
cursiveclojure.com. 10799   IN  NS  rush.easydns.com.
cursiveclojure.com. 10799   IN  NS  nirvana.easydns.net.
cursiveclojure.com. 10799   IN  NS  motorhead.easydns.org.
cursiveclojure.com. 10799   IN  SOA dns1.easydns.com. zone3.easydns.com. 1411422284 43200 10800 1209600 10800
~/d/riddley (master)> ping 95.170.82.135
PING 95.170.82.135 (95.170.82.135): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 95.170.82.135: icmp_seq=0 ttl=48 time=300.551 ms

A friend has confirmed that the site works fine from elsewhere. The only solution I have found is to restart my machine, flushing the DNS caches with sudo discoveryutil udnsflushcaches doesn't seem to help.

Does anyone know what's going on?


texts: Hiding iCloud folders from search on iOS

texts:
I have a few files that come up frequently in my searches from the iOS equivalent of spotlight (idk what this is called just swiping down on the home screen) that I dont want previewed in search. I am trying to figure out how to hide them from search or prevent their previews (images) from showing up.

I have tried setting the containing folder to .noindex but that didn't seem to work.

Any ideas?


texts: External monitor's (DELL U2415) refresh rate locked at 59.88 Hz (NTSC)?

texts:
I bought a DELL U2415 monitor and connected it via a MiniDP to DP cable that came with the monitor. Surprisingly the refresh rate of the monitor was locked at 59.88 Hz (NTSC), unlike a U2414H connected via HDMI, which has its refresh rate configurable as either 50 Hz or 60 Hz.

59.88 Hz looks like a strange number to me as well as the NTSC that came with it. Is it possible to change the refresh rate, e.g. by using some other software or using HDMI cable instead of DP cable? Is there any potential downside to this refresh rate? I feel the colors slightly faded but maybe that isn't related to the refresh rate per se.


texts:
I have a 4TB WD external hard drive with three partitions on it, one being a Time Machine partition. When a Time Machine backup is running and the computer goes to sleep, it triggers a few different annoying issues.

First, I can no longer seem to eject the partitions properly. I get an error saying that the drive is in use. The application What’s Keeping Me? tells me that mds and its related processes are keeping the drive from unmounting, but no matter how many times I kill the processes they return and makes it impossible to unmount.

Second, it seems that the drive will continually mount and unmount during sleep, which is terrifying. When I open the computer again, I see a whole bunch of notifications that I manually have to dismiss (Norwegian OS in the image).

Third, Time Machine gives me an error saying it couldn’t complete the backup, and I have to force an unmount and replug the drive for it to work properly again.

I’ve excluded Spotlight from indexing the external drive, excluded Time Machine from backing up the other external partitions, there is no sleep timer on the WD drive itself, but Power Nap is enabled. What should I do?

Edit: ‘Put hard drives to sleep when possible’ is unchecked in System Preferences.


texts: headset plugged in via Y-adapter and extension cable stopped working

texts:
I own a late 2013 iMac 27". The following setup worked for months until yesterday:

The 3.5mm port is connected to a Y-Adapter, the adapter let me use two headsets at once. I use my headset and my stereo (which as new mic and only is for output) on the ends. In-between headset and y-adapter I use a 5 meter extension cable. That worked very fine the last few months.

Yesterday my friends reported my mic sound is bad and they hear my keyboard while talking. I checked and saw that the mic from my headset was no longer recognized within the audio settings. Sound itself works fine on the headset, as well as on my stereo.
I rebooted, nothing changed.

The (bad) solution was plugging in my headset directly to the build in 3.5mm port. External microphone shows up in the settings. Testing the long extension cable and the Y-adapter I came to the conclusion both work fine. It is very unlikely that on both cables the mic channel broke at the same time.

I tried my (never touched before) headsets from my iPhone and my HTC, both only work when directly plugged in, but not over one or both cables.

Directly plugged in headset sound far worse then over the previous setup. According to my friends, which hear me everyday via TeamSpeak.

The only thing I did with audio was to have a Skype session in the night (I usually don't use Skype). I read now that skype + OS X sometimes lead to missing microphones, but only within the Skype App, not affecting the system input. So I assume that this is not related to my issue.

The setup is sadly pretty unique.

Anyone experienced similar issues or have any suggestion on how I can fix?

If it matters, here is the extension cable  and the y-adapter on (German) Amazon.


texts: How do I boot from DVD to do clean install of Snow Leopard on iMac4,1?

texts:
I have an iMac4,1 (20" Intel Core Duo 2.0) -- stock except an authorized Apple Repair place upgraded the HD to 1TB for me a couple years ago.

It's been acting strange for a while, log in, use it for a few minutes and then get a spinning wheel, computer becomes unresponsive.

I've backed up all user data to an external drive, and now I want to do a clean install of Snow Leopard.

I have the Snow Leopard DVD (I bought it retail when it came out).

I put the DVD in.  I restart the iMac, and I've tried holding down C, then D, then Alt keys on the keyboard, but it will not boot from the DVD -- it just takes me to the login screen.

With the keys pressed, during start up the pale grey Apple logo does seem to flicker to something else, might have a question mark on it.

I also tried using Disk Utility to format the drive, but it doesn't seem to want to let me do that.

So ... QUESTION ... how do I boot from the Snow Leopard DVD to do a clean installation?


texts: Send iPhone slow-mo video to non-iPhone user

texts: I recorded a slow motion video on my iPhone and I can play it back on my phone just fine (with the slow-motion effect), but when I text the video to someone who has an Android phone, they don't see the slow-motion effect.  Do I need to purchase another application to send a slow motion video to a non-iOS user or sharing slow-mo videos with the slow-mo effect supported out of the box with iPhone 6 (running iOS 8)?


texts: Cannot connect to App Store due to unactivated SIM?

texts:
I’ve picked up my new iPhone 6 yesterday. I’ve set up my Apple ID and connected it to my WLAN normally. Internet works, but when I launch the App Store it just says “Cannot connect…”.

Could it be due to the unactivated SIM card? The phone is locked to T-Mobile Croatia, but they haven’t yet activated my SIM card. (I expect them to do this throughout today, but there could be delays.)

The only other cause I can think of is my preexisting Apple ID. I’ve created it last year when I wanted to access some Apple developer specific videos, but I haven’t had an Apple device until now.


texts: I've enabled dragging in the touchpad settings in Accessibility, but I've also chosen "without drag lock". However, the dragging still continues after I lift my finger, just as it does when I choose "with drag lock". Is this a known problem in Yosemite?


texts: Is there a way to stream from iSight camera over RTSP?

texts:
I'm contemplating using ZoneMinder to monitor my home. As a first step to see if it works, I'd like to connect it to my MacBook built-in camera over the local network (ZoneMinder itself runs on a Linux server).

So far I failed to find software which would allow me to do that. Is anyone aware of something like this?

This is just to test that I understand how to configure and use ZoneMinder before I invest in a hardware IP camera.

Things I looked at:

Reddit thread about the subject
Apple App Store
HomeBrew
https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server an RTSP server which streams static files (?)
Searched in Google and Ask Different for combinations of "RTSP", "MacOS", "iSight", "Camera"
Searched ZoneMinder Wiki and Forums


texts: install mobileconfig file for a specific user

texts:
I'm maintaining a bunch of Macbooks (OSX High Sierra). Each time after they have been used I delete the user "workshop" and create it again (to get rid of unwanted user data).

As a part of that process I want to install a mobileconfig file to get access to the eduroam network at our university. At the moment I'm installing the file manually each time the user account is renewed. I tried to do it via command line, so far without success:

when I run

/usr/bin/profiles -I -F path/to/file

from the admin account, the network doesn't work for user "workshop"

when I run

/usr/bin/profiles -I -U workshop -F path/to/file

I get the error message: "the user name is not valid for this command"

I can run the command when I'm logged in as workshop, but this wouldn't simplify my routine. su doesn't work either on osx. I have no idea what else to try.


texts: VirtualBox won't re-install after unintsall

texts: I am running Big Sur. I recently installed VirtualBox and tried to load a CentOS image from OSBoxes. I basically restarted my laptop, forgot about it for more than 30 minutes after installation and then tried to load the CentOS image. I got the error "virtualbox error kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)". After searching for it, it appeared to be a Security Issue. However, I never got a Security notification asking me to allow apps from Oracle. The preferred solution was to uninstall VirtualBox and then re-install it and get the security notification. I uninstalled VirtualBox using the uninstall script which comes with the installer. However, the re-installation is failing when I try to install. It is giving me the error "Installation Failed. Contact the manufactured for assistance". I temporarily disabled Mac Gatekeeper, but I never get any notification asking me to allow installations from Oracle. Could you please help?


texts: How did I end up with two iPad apps called Apple Store?

texts: Which is the real one? What is the other one? How did I get it?


texts: Is there an iPod app to easily switch wifi on and off?

texts: Is there an app whose only purpose would be to change the wifi prefs, by starting or stopping the wifi on iPod Touch? I would like to have an icon on the home page, and a simple click on it will switch the state of the wifi.


texts:
I am new to Mac OS X and till the time I was using Windows 7/8. I tried to download and install programs in Mac OS X, but I do not see them in Launchpad.

Where are all my programs are going. Secondly, what is path where software are actually installed in Mac?


texts:
I'm having troubling finding an details on what -d switch means in security : https://ss64.com/osx/security.html
In the commandline :
security dump-keychain -d login.keychain , what is the use of the "-d".


texts: How can you see the value of a cookie on an iPhone?

texts:
I need to see the value of a cookie in Safari on an iPhone.  How do I do this?

Note that I'm not asking how to delete a cookie, or how to see that a cookie exists.  I'm trying to see the actual data stored in a cookie.

For example, on Firefox, I can go to Tools > Options > Privacy > Show Cookies and see the actual data stored in each cookie my browser has stored.


texts: Is a 3-5 second delay normal for a Retina MacBook Pro to wake up from sleep?

texts:
For 3 days, I now got a new rMBP. I am a first time Mac user.

I had a friend with a MBP and it usually wakes up in a mere second, as soon as he opens the laptop's lid up. However in my Retina MBP, it takes a few seconds (3-5s) to wake up.

Is this normal?


texts: I can't download Xcode because my Mac mini is not up to date. However, there are no updates for my Mac mini. Is there anything to do?

texts: My Mac mini is currently is version 10.12.6. Xcode requires "version 10.14.4 or laterV. However, when I check for available updates for my OS, there are none


texts: How to change encoding in Mail in OS X Mavericks?

texts:
Normally I would open Mail.app, click Message → Encoding → [One of the Cyrillic encodings]. But since the upgrade I don't see text encoding option in Message menu.

How to change to use one of the Cyrillic encodings?


texts: Is there an adapter / Dock / hub with 2 display outputs?

texts:
Looking around I can only seem to find an adapter / dock that only has 1 hdmi output with usb,ethernet, etc.

Are there any adapters / Docks that have 2 display outputs? So then I can plug it into the macbook pro with thunderbolt 3 and output on 2 displays. without needing to buy 2 of these

Is it not possible because of the power consumption or speeds?

Thanks!


texts: External Monitor not detected on Macbook Air early 2015, with thunderbolt 2 + HDMI

texts:
I have always been wanting to connect my macbook air to an external monitor, so after researching the best types for macbooks, I figured connecting my macbook via HDMI to a monitor would work.

However, I have connected everything up with no success. I made sure to first shut down and restart my laptop, and when fully booted connect the mini display adapter into my mac, and connect one of the HDMI cables to the adapter. I then connected the end of the HDMI cable to my monitor's HDMI dock. After switching on my monitor and waiting for it to connect, I realised that my macbook was not registering the device. Yes, my mouse was lagging a bit while my monitor was attempting to connect, so I think it knows it's there, but I could not connect it.

I have tried various solutions:

Uninstall Display Drivers -> restart -> install new display drivers again -> restart -> connect Monitor + Macbook again
Clear recent items -> unplug all devices -> shut down -> reboot with command + option + s + power button -> connect everything again once logged
I tried to reset the System Management Controller on my macbook by shutting down and Shift-Control-Option and the power button, and then turning it back on.

If it helps, this is the display I'm connecting to: KA251Q | Monitors - Tech Specs & Reviews - Acer

None of these work. I am losing patience and hope. Could someone please help me fix this nasty problem? <3


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I noticed, I am missing some of my default folders in the finder (Public, Sites, Movies, Library).

However I can list them in the terminal and enter them with the cd command.

I tried to use chflags nohidden, to make them visible in the finder again, but nothing happened.

Is there any other way, to make them visible again in the finder?

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I've tried my iCloud password too many times and it got disabled. I got the following notification:

  Email has been sent.

  When you receive your sign in information, follow the directions in the email to reset your password.

  Return to My Apple ID

How to restore access to my iCloud data?


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When I run iTap Mobile RDP on my Macbook Pro, I set the Windows resolution to "native", with "fullscreen" off. When I open a connection to Windows, the OS X window shows the usual "fullscreen" arrows in the upper right corner.

When I run iTap on my 27' iMac using exactly the same settings, the "fullscreen" arrows do not show, even though the application fills the viewing area (not including the dock and menubar).

Both Macs are running 10.8.5.

Any idea why they would be different? Is there a setting that I am missing on the iMac? I would like the "fullscreen" arrows to appear on the iMac.

UPDATE I am using iTap 1.1.10.23000 on both machines.


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texts: I do some dev and testing on the iPhone. Recently, I was testing some localizations and needed to change the language. I've since changed back to English, but now whenever I bring up a keyboard a "globe" key is always near the bottom of the keyboard. This annoys the heck out of me because I keep accidentally tapping it. Any way to turn it off?


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I gave my everyday OS X user account admin rights whilst trying to get a code project working.

I now no longer need admin rights. However, when I log in using either my everyday account or my admin account, the “Allow user to administer this computer” checkbox for my everyday account is both selected and disabled, so that I can’t remove the admin rights from my account. (I did click on the padlock icon and unlock it using my everyday account password first.)

Is there a way to enable the checkbox, or another way to remove admin rights for this account?

I’ve seen how to do so on the command line, but it feels like there should be some way to do this in the GUI.


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These are the default settings for when a Mac laptop is plugged in:

Notice how

the display will be turned off automatically after 10 minutes of inactivity, and
the ”Prevent computer from sleeping…” option is not checked, which suggests that the laptop will go to sleep when the display is turned off (after 10 minutes of inactivity).

If I check the “Prevent computer…” option, I can expect that the laptop will not go to sleep after the display is turned off automatically.

But what if I then close the lid? Does this setting also prevent the laptop from going to sleep even then?


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I recently purchased a mac pro w Yosemite.  I left my wife set herself up as an additional user, which later I removed.  Now 3 apps (numbers, Keynote and Pages) which need to be updated are listed under her apple ID and requires her password.  Being my laptop, I want to correct this and use my ID.

Unfortunately the OS doesn't allow me to delete them. When I tried to re-purchase them, it only allows me to update the apps, and then shows my wife's ID and wants her password. I can use her password but would rather correct the problem.


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I have found some answers on here but need to check something. Is there a way to check the failed login attempts form previous days?

I have tried:

var/log/secure.log

but that only gives me results for the current day and I need them for the past 4 days ideally.

Have also used

cat /private/var/log/system.log | grep "Failed to authenticate"

And again only todays results.

Thanks in advance!


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I'm starting to feel that none of the Apple Watch designers actually broke a sweat while working out with the watch, nor did they try to exercise in the rain.

I started the Workout app on Outdoor Run, then at about a mile into my run I pulled back my rain-soaked sleeve to find that my workout was stopped about half a mile back, I assume because the water was mistaken for touch input.

With my Garmin Forerunner I could lock the touch bezel but continue to use the side buttons to start, stop, and reset the timer.

Am I missing a similar feature on the Apple Watch?


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I have recently bought an iBook to run a specific software. The machine is still pretty good but I was chatting with someone and they recommended not connecting it to Wi-Fi.
Is there an issue with doing this? Is it unsafe for some reason?


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On my iPhone, the emoji keyboard is to the right of the number keyboard:

On my iPad, it’s on the left:

Due to muscle memory, every time I’m typing on my iPad I bring up the emoji keyboard in error. I won’t ask anyone to explain why Apple have been inconsistent here, but is there a way to reverse them? I’ve tried removing and re-adding the emoji keyboard in settings, but that didn’t work.