texts: APFS partition on an external drive stopped working

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I have an external drive formatted in APFS. I use it to store some media files and it contains a Time Machine sparse bundle which is encrypted. I can chose to mount or not the sparse bundle. Today I was planning to make a backup with Time Machine. But in order to do that I have to mount first the hard drive.

That's it for the intro. The problem I have now is that MacOS can't mount partitions inside this drive anymore. I tried everything with fcsk and diskutil with no success so far.
Error is the following:

> Exécution de fsck_apfs -y -x /dev/rdisk3s1
Checking the container superblock.
Checking the space manager.
Checking the space manager free queue trees.
Checking the object map.
Checking volume.
Checking the APFS volume superblock.
The volume Samsung was formatted by diskmanagementd (945.200.129) and last modified by apfs_kext (1412.101.1).
Checking the object map.
error: btn: invalid key order (0) oid 2325271 / oxid 0 / level 0 / flags 0x6
    previous key: e8 b1 01 00 00 00 00 00 b9 d4 00 00 00 00 00 00
    current key:  ee ad 01 00 00 00 00 00 0a 00 01 00 00 00 00 00
    next key:     ef ad 01 00 00 00 00 00 b3 00 01 00 00 00 00 00
Object map is invalid.
The volume /dev/rdisk3s1 could not be verified completely.
Le code de sortie de la vérification du système de fichiers est 8.
Rétablissement de l’état original : démonté.
La vérification ou la réparation du système de fichiers a échoué. : (-69845)

I am able to add new partition inside this drive but not being able to mount the legacy partition.

I run the apfs-inspect tool and here is the output:  https://pastebin.com/wnBHK37g

There seems to be something with the OID 0x402 in nx_omap_btree but I have no clue what does that mean.
Would you mind helping me finding a way to fix that?

Thanks,
Roma


texts: Airport Extreme: Macbooks cannot connect to disk drive over wifi; LAN iMac can

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Just bought an Airport Extreme. Connected a LaCie 2To hddrive (usb 2).

I have set up the drive without issue and can indeed see it in the Finder  and browse through the files via my iMac (which connects via LAN).

But on the two macbooks over Wifi, I can see the Airport Extreme in the Finder, and connect to the internet without problem. Everything seems ok, except that the HDD does not appear.

Any idea why?


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I received a spam email that pretends that I have to validate my Apple ID account information.

  Our automated system was recently unable to validate your details and therefor we require you to complete a short validation process. Please proceed to the link below in order to avoid any interruption to your Apple services.

Where can I report this to Apple?


texts: Test iPhone Apps in Xcode 5 on a jailbroken iPhone 5S 7.0.6?

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How would I go about testing iPhone apps made in Xcode 5.0.2 on my jailbroken iPhone 5S 7.0.6? I read a tutorial on how to do it with Xcode 4.x, but it doesn't seem to apply anymore for Xcode 5.x.
http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/Xcode#Developing_without_Provisioning_Profile

I really would appreciate an answer. I really don't want to buy a $99.00 developer account until my app is fully finished. Thanks again!


texts: Why after installing MacPorts the kernel_task RAM size raised x1.5?

texts: I noticed that before installing MacPorts the kernel_task RAM usage was about 200-300 Mb. After installing that the process is using 482.5 Mb real RAM. What are the components (maybe .kexts, which then?) MacPorts has added to the kernel_task process?


texts: Clock icon next to some apps on macOS Mojave

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Notice the clock or piece-of-pie icons next to 3 of the apps in this screenshot of the Finder. The icon has been there for two days. All three apps work; I have used each of them.

➥ What does that icon mean?

➥ Is it a problem? What can I do to fix it?

Using macOS Mojave 10.14.5 on a Mac mini (2018).


texts: What does an icon that looks like a pair of connected chain links next to a wireless network name mean?

texts: When I click on the WiFi symbol in the menu bar on my Mac I get a list of wireless networks, most of them with little lock icons next to them. But some of them show what looks like a pair of chain links instead (see image below). What does this mean? That these networks are personal hotspots?


texts: How do I know which App is sending Vibrate-only Notification?

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I have an iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1.1, with around 200 Apps installed.

Recently my phone receives some notifications which does not appear in Notification Center, Lock Screen, or Badge Icons. It only vibrates (no sound too).

How do I know which App is triggering this notification?


texts: Connect MacBook Pro to Smart TV wirelessly

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I have a MacBook Pro running High Sierra 10.13.6.
In my house I have two Smart TVs:

LG Smart TV with webOS
Xiaomi Mi SmartTV with Android TV 9.0

I would like to wirelessly transmit the screen of my MacBook to these TVs (not both at the same time because they are in different house's divisions).
I know that Xiaomi Mi SmartTV has Chromecast incorporated but I think that would only work with Google Chrome's "cast" feature.
I want to transmit the screen of my MacBook to these TVs so I can work in different apps, documents, code and watch movies.
Is there any way to do this without Apple TV?


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I have an applescript that needs to be called by an external program with command-shift-click.  However, the applescript then performs keystrokes with command & shift held down.  How do I get around this?

I tried:

keystroke "blah" using command up

but get this syntax error:
Expected end of line, etc. but found application constant or consideration.

I've similarly tried

key up shift
key up command
keystroke "blah"

and this simply doesn't work - the command/shift keys are still held.

Is using documented anywhere that might help me resolve this?  Otherwise, how do you make the applescript ignore user-held modifier keys?

EDIT: A workaround (but not a solution): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6584357/why-applescript-always-send-keystrokes-with-command-down  add delay 0.2 before the script


texts:
I have blanks in each row.  Can I hide them?

I want to be able to select a row and gather it together by getting rid of the empty cells.


texts: How to turn off menu bar autohide in split view mode?

texts: I use split view quite a bit for programming and want the menu bar to always be shown. Is there any way to do that?


texts: Handbrake CLI Transcoded Video not Playable in Quicktime and Itunes

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i am transcoding a bunch of videos with handbrake CLI. Therfore i use this presets:

    for i in `seq 0 10`; do f=$(($i-1)); HandBrakeCLI -i /Videofolder/ -t $i -O
-f av_mp4 -e x264 -q 19 --h264-profile high --h264-level 4.1
--x264-preset medium --decomb -q 19 -a 1,3 -s "1,3"
-E copy:ac3 -o ~/Desktop/Video$(($f+1)).m4v; done

The Problem is  the result is not playable, not in Itunes neither in Quicktime. VLC does just fine. Quicktime starts trancoding this Video and after about 20 secs its playing it back. Has anyone got a hint for me whats my mistake?

Greenings and a big thank you :)


texts: In Safari 5.1, how do I disable Top Sites and the caching of thumbnail images of Web pages?

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There were methods for doing this in earlier versions of Safari but I don't know of one that works with 5.1.

The reason I want to do this is that it takes up a great deal of disk space, and I suspect it slows things down on my older, slower Mac running Lion because of all the extra caching going on. I never use the feature anyway.

Here is the link to an earlier question on Ask Different with regard to Safari 5.0.

How can I disable "Top Sites" in Safari/Webkit completely?

I am creating a new question because apparently any methods that would work for Safari 5.0 will not work for 5.1.


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Is 16gb ram enough on macbook pro 16 inch for my use case?
I just purchased a 2019 refurbished 16 inch pro last night to replace my current 2011 iMac (24 gb ram 2.7 GHz i5). I thought I only had 16 gb ram on this machine so figured it would be fine on the macbook as this machine is running fine for me. Now that I've realized I actually have 24 GB ram, and you can't upgrade MacBooks afterwards, I'm starting to get worried I won't have enough on the MacBook. I also was reading something about retina displays/new OS taking up more RAM?
I only use the computer for programming in python/django/java and generally have a simple text editor, intellij, command prompt, and chrome open (normally with atleast 10 tabs open lol). I don't do heavy video/image editing.
Do you think I should cancel the order and upgrade to 32 gb ram? Or will I be ok with 16?
Thanks!


texts: What is the safest way to triple boot Macbook Pro?

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I recently purchased a MBP 13.3 i5 system, and I'm keen on making it triple boot (Lion, Win7, Ubuntu 11.04). What is the safest way to do this ? I found quite a few websites online, but I'm not sure of whether they are entirely accurate/updated for Lion etc.

I would really appreciate it if someone could post a link that has worked for Lion/Win7/Ubuntu 11.04.

Also, would this action invalidate the warranty of the MBP ?


texts: iOS 9 call log/recent calls doesn't show blue number to identify which number is referenced

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I work for a marketing company and we use iPhones.

Lots of contacts have more than a phone number saved in their business card as mobile, main, home, private ecc.

In iOS 9, in the recent calls log, can not see anymore the phone number coloured in blue as to show which number called (mobile, main, home, private, etc); a big issue if the contact has more than 2 numbers saved in his BC.

Missed calls show in red, but also don't specifically identify which phone number.

Would like to know if its just me or is something common that happen to you guys as well.


texts: Struggling to remove Contacts from Messages

texts: So I just purchased a Macbook Pro second hand and his contacts are still synced to the messages app on the bottom of the screen on the homepage. Is there any way for me remove his contacts and sync my contacts instead?


texts: Terminal app can access folders that it isn't allowed

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In the security and privacy pane I didn't allow the terminal app to access anything.

I didn't allow full disk access either.
However, it can show the contents of Desktop by doing cd Desktop, ls. Why?


texts: FileVault 2 encrypted disks with my home directory on a different drive

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I have multiple volumes on my mac and I just enabled encryption on the other drives. My home folder is stored on one of those drives. Now I can't login because it can't see my home directory, but if I login with my admin account it unlocks the drives and then I can login.

How do I add those passwords to my login keychain, so they can find my home directory?

I could decrypt my home directory, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having it encrypted. And my home directory is too big to fit on my boot disk.


texts: Why does Mail.app automatically add iCal events from invitations I receive?

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I sometimes receive emails with .ics file attachments. Mail.app automatically adds these events to my iCloud Calendar as soon as I preview the message.

How can I disable this behaviour and only add the event if I click on the attachment manually?


texts: Pause and resume ffmpeg using keyboard shortcut

texts: This question is too broad, so I'm narrowing it down into specific applications. I know that I can press space bar or p when focus is on the ffmpeg window to pause and resume the audio, but often it is playing something in the background while I have 5 terminal windows, 4 Preview windows, 6 Chrome windows, etc. (so its window is hidden somewhere), and it's convenient if I can pause and resume FFplay using a shortcut key. I have iCanHazShortcut installed which can execute arbitrary commands once a combination of key is pressed, so I wonder if there is a command that can pause FFplay audio. If there is a solution that applies to all command-line applications, please let me know.


texts: What is the application Wi-Fi, and why is it gobbling 2GB of memory? Running latest version of macOS Mojave 10.14.1 on a 2018 MacBook 15" with 16GB of memory total.


texts: How can I de-folderize the contents of a folder?

texts:
Is it possible - without any command line or programming being involved - to remove all folders within a folder, and just leave the files?

For example, if I processed this photo folder:

Then I would end up having all the photos in just one folder to go through them faster rather than having to go inside each folder (some of which are sometimes empty, since the camera creates the folder based on the date but doesn't delete the folder if you delete the photos from that day).

I know that one can change the camera's settings to make the camera save all the photos in just one folder, but this isn't what I'm asking, since knowing how to do this type of de-folderizing action would be useful in many other situations, not just with this particular example.

Simplest solutions are more welcome than ones involving programming.


texts: Change default contact picture for iphone

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This is most likely a jailbreak-related question...

Is there a known application to mass/bulk change the default picture for contacts without a picture?

Ie: I just added John Doe and I have no picture for him, so he has a silhouette when you look at his contact information.

How can I change all contacts with that same silhouette to, say, a deer?


texts: How to implement shortcut commands to the "Share > Email" under contextual menu?

texts: How to implement shortcut commands to the "Share > Email" under contextual menu in Mountain Lion?


texts: iChat call forces in-call status bar in iOS simulator

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Is there a way I can disassociate the iOS Simulator from my iChat calls, currently I am working on my app and I am using iChat for a video call and the in-call status bar comes and I can't toggle it off.

It actually says that it's a FaceTime call.

More:

I am developing an iPhone application and I am using he iOS Simulator application to test it. However I am also using iChat to speak to someone on a video call at the same time on my mac.

Consequently in my iOS simulator, the green in-call status bar is appearing. This is stopping me working on some things in my app and I am trying to find a way to switch it off.


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I have a Dell keyboard with a built-in number pad. On some applications when I use it, it works normally. On IntelliJ, when I type on the number pad, it doesn't type at all. On Excel, it primarily types with spaces between the numbers/symbols. How could I fix this or do I need to get an Apple keyboard?

I have a Mac mini (Late 2014) running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6.


texts: Sierra frozen at login screen - keyboard and mouse unresponsive

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After rebooting my MBPr, it is now frozen at the login screen showing the list of users.  I'm unable to move the cursor or use the keyboard.  Booting in safe mode does the same thing.  A few days ago, I updated Sierra to 10.12.4, so it might be related to that.  Right before the problem happened, I was pruning old third-party Launch Agents and Daemons, but I did not delete any from Apple.  That might be related, but I don't know for sure, since I very rarely reboot the computer.

I reset NVRAM.

I deleted /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist.

I used Disk Utility in recovery mode to repair the startup disk, but no problems were found.

I looked at /var/log/system.log using Terminal in recovery mode, and I see many lines related to Installer, so is it trying to install something, or is this a normal part of recovery mode?

Small sample of the log is below, and the full log is on pastebin. Sierra's new log command doesn't work from recovery mode.

May 15 16:10:08 MacBook-Pro Installer Progress[151]: Register process 491, phaseName Install Springboard, uuid 35F782F8-715E-41FF-9AF6-DB016B483C68
May 15 16:10:08 MacBook-Pro Installer Progress[151]: Connected processes = {
        "35F782F8-715E-41FF-9AF6-DB016B483C68" =     {
            "Phase Name" = "Install Springboard";
            "Process ID" = 491;
            UUID = "35F782F8-715E-41FF-9AF6-DB016B483C68";
        };
        "A9879B21-4872-49FC-AC94-E8F7985A5F61" =     {
            CompletionHandlerKey = "<__NSMallocBlock__: 0x7fe35dcf0580>";
            "Phase Name" = "Language Chooser";
            "Process ID" = 468;
            UUID = "A9879B21-4872-49FC-AC94-E8F7985A5F61";
        };
        "D963D32E-BA49-4ADD-8359-79B93262F438" =     {
            CompletionHandlerKey = "<__NSMallocBlock__: 0x7fe35b70eb50>";
            "Phase Name" = "Launch Progress Window";
            "Process ID" = 465;
            UUID = "D963D32E-BA49-4ADD-8359-79B93262F438";
        };
    }
May 15 16:10:08 MacBook-Pro Installer Progress[151]: Saving completion handler for phase Install Springboard
May 15 16:10:08 MacBook-Pro Installer Progress[151]: The Progress UI has been hidden
May 15 16:10:08 MacBook-Pro Installer Progress[151]: Saving completion handler for phase Install Springboard
May 15 16:10:08 MacBook-Pro Installer Progress[151]: Unregister process 491, phaseName Install Springboard, uuid 35F782F8-715E-41FF-9AF6-DB016B483C68

I appreciate any advice, but if you simply tell me to reinstall MacOS, I will downvote the answer, because I want to actually find the problem.


texts: All HTTP requests get ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED, HTTPS works - How to troubleshoot?

texts:
Trying to open a http website on any web browser (event telnet) gives a ‘ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED’ or ‘connection timed out’.

However, the same sites can be opened using https. I tried doing a traceroute and it works fine.

I am new to OS X but have experience with Linux. How do I go about troubleshooting this issue?

Update

I think I've tracked down the culprit to a rule in pf (firewall).

The result of sudo pfctl -s nat is:

No ALTQ support in kernel
ALTQ related functions disabled
rdr pass inet proto tcp from 192.168.0.101 to any port = 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 9882

192.168.0.101 is the current ip address of the computer.

I tried to remove the rule with sudo pfctl -F all, but it is back after a few seconds. I didn't find the rule in the default configurations (/etc/pf.conf). And disabling pf with sudo pfctl -d has no effect on it.

Is this a malware issue?


texts: Whenever I open the Mac Terminal it shows "no such files or directory"

texts:
Whenever I open my Mac Terminal something goes wrong. I am getting:

  -bash: USERNAME: No such file or directory

This issue started to happen suddenly. I don't have any clue why it is happening.


texts: How to reset default permissions after the result of running the chown command

texts:
I ran this line in Terminal:

sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local

Now I want to reverse it to the default permissions. How do I do that?

(I think the default owner is system)


texts: Using symbolic link not working to back up iPhone directly to non-default location

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There are quite a few questions about this and the answer usually involves symbolically linking the backup file to the external drive. (E.g. Is it possible to backup iOS devices to an external drive? or Backup iPhone to external drive on Mac)

The command I ran was

ln -s /Volumes/<externaldrive>/iOSBackup/Backup /Users/<username>/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/Backup

But when I try to backup, I get:

To save space I stopped doing local backups a long time ago, so there is no backup in my Mobile Sync/Backup folder to begin with which may complicate things. When I go to Devices Preferences, there is no backup to delete (as expected):

It appears that the symlink process no longer works (the questions all seem to be from 3 years ago), or perhaps I've not done it correctly.


texts: How to choose a compatible SSD replacement/adapter for Macbook Air mid-2011 13"?

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What parameters should I consider when choosing an after-market replacement for an original SSD in Macbook Air 13" mid-2011 A1369?

Looks like there are third-party adapters available now (eg QNine). What aspects should I consider in deciding whether the adapter will be compatible to:

a replacement SSD (eg. Samsung 860 EVO M.2 SATA)
the Macbook Air

Is "proprietary connector / firmware" still an issue today for SSDs on 2011 Air, which can be a stopper here?

Are the following parameters conclusive on understanding compatibility between the adapter and the SSD itself: form factor (M.2 2280), interface (SATA B-key)?

My initial research gives varying opinions:

it needs to be single-sided SSD, but unclear what is actually meant (eg is the above Samsung actually single-sided)
some users believe that SSDs which are not from Apple nor from OWC will not work, even if they fit connectors properly
OWC SSDs are supported because they have Sandforce controllers
someone managed the 1TB version of Samsung to work with this adapter
difficult physical fit for 2012 models (I wonder whether they have a different layout/space constraints than 2011)


texts: Launch default browser spotlight shortcut?

texts:
I often switch my default browser between Safari and Chrome. I would like to create a shortcut that will launch the default browser, whatever that may be. This way I don't have to remember what my default browser is and switch between typing "Chr" or "Saf" in spotlight. I would like to type the same word such as "Browser".

What are my options?


texts: Some songs don't play in iTunes on macOS

texts:
Some of the songs in my iTunes library refuse to play. When I double click on them, nothing happens. When I play the song before it and then skip over to the next song, it actually skips the song and thus goes forward 2 songs. There is nothing different about this song, it's part of an album where every song plays just fine, it's not unchecked or anything.

When I find this song in my Finder and play it through VLC, it plays absolutely fine, no problem at all.

I am not using Apple Music, but I do have iTunes Match. This song has the status "matched" and is downloaded to my computer. Removing the downloading and fetching it again doesn't help.


texts: Spotlight not indexing attachments of exchange Mail

texts:
I recently got a MBP and really love how quick spotlight is. I'm reading my exchange email via the Apple Mail app. The messages are indexed by spotlight but the contents of the attachments are not.

Any idea how I can enable/fix this?


texts: SSH keybased authentication using smartcard

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I originally posted this on Information Security but am hoping to attract an answer here since this is OSX specific.

So I'm fairly new to more secure forms of key management, I've been used to storing my keys inside key files on my computer. Recently I wanted to try and see if I could setup SSH authentication to my webserver using a key stored on my NitroKeyPro making my keychain more portable and secure in the process.

I followed this guide http://xmodulo.com/linux-security-with-nitrokey-usb-smart-card.html pretty much step by step but noticed that in the end, I did not need my NitroKeyPro to be inserted into my computer at all for the authentication to succeed.

I have a feeling that upon exporting my key it somehow got added to my local key storage making the NitroKey redundant but I am not knowledgable enough about the exact workings to be sure.

Would anyone be able to help me ensure that I can only SSH into my web server while my NitroKey is inserted into my computer?

Notes:

OS: OSX El Capitan 10.11.4
NitroKeyPro
Even while the NitroKey is inserted into my computer it does NOT ask me to enter a pin when I attempt to SSH.
OpenSC 0.15.0
gpg 2.0.28

I tried removing from ~/.ssh the following:

id.rsa
private_key.pem

after attempting to SSH to my web server again I get:

Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).

I assume this indicates that the SSH session cannot find my key to authenticate with, I checked if my computer was detecting the NitroKey by running:

  gpg --card-status

and received card information like I would expect.


texts: 21.5" iMac Mid 2010 | Restarting On Boot OSX Utilities Menu

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I made an OSX High Sierra Bootable USB. The iMac starts fine and enters the MacOS Utilities GUI screen. But when I press either Disk Utility or Install MacOS, the iMac restarts ubrubtly.

What could be the reason?


texts: How to work-around limitations of iCloud Mail rules to emulate Mail.app rules?

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I have been using Mail.app to manage my personal and work email accounts forever, using many rules in the desktop Mail.app to manage the large volume of messages that pass through my accounts; however, as I've expanded to using an iPad and laptop alongside my desktop, I've started to run into issues with rules not being applied (e.g. if a message is viewed on a mobile device when the desktop or laptop is off).

I figured the solution was as simple as setting up the same rules directly on the server, via iCloud.com; however, I was disappointed to find that the range of actions for rules on iCloud is much more limited than those available on the desktop version of the app (e.g. there is no option whatsoever for copying a message to another folder).

Has anyone come up with a work-around that would allow one to apply more sophisticated mail-sorting rules at the server level? The one that I am most in need of is duplicating a message to a different folder (see below for additional context).

Additional Context / Motivation

With all the glitchiness of Mail.app rules in the past, I found the most effective method for my purposes was to have a message moved to the appropriate folder for organizing messages > create a duplicate, unread version marked with a green flag in my inbox (the flag would tell me that the rules had run successfully): this way, I see all the messages coming in (so nothing slips by by being sorted into a sub-folder without my noticing it come in), but can just delete the inbox copy, knowing that the message itself has been properly sorted.


texts: Where is "`" key on a physical Finnish keyboard using English layout?

texts:
My Mac-Pro uses a Finnish keyboard by "hardware".
When I switched to the US keyboard layout, I cannot type "`" anymore.

The place where ` usually appears (below esc) gives
§ or ± (when Shift is pressed).

How to type "`" in my case?


texts: Managing photos on a small iPhone iOS 12

texts:
Can anyone confirm that this is correct?

"If you turn off iCloud photos on any of your apple devices (mac, iPhone, iPad) you are then presented with the choice as to whether already downloaded photos will stay on that device or be deleted on that device.”

I am afraid to try it for fear of permanently losing photos, but I have a small, 15 GB iPhone and have used almost all its capacity.


texts: How to add Canon printer that works on Windows machines?

texts:
I'm trying to add a Canon MF8050cn to print from OS X Yosemite that works fine from Windows 7 machines.  I installed the Canon 8000 driver Mac_MF_Ver1040_00.dmg for Macintosh.  I can ping the printer successfully at 10.1.10.18 from my Macintosh.  In the Add Printer dialog on the Macintosh, I enter the static IP address of the printer and Internet Printing Protocol and use Canon MF8000 Series, however, when I click Add on the dialog, it gives the error:

Unable to verify the printer on your network.
Unable to connect to '10.1.10.18' due to an error.
Would you still like to create the printer?

Choosing Continue gives a printer that when you print to it gets the error Printing - The printer is not responding.

How can I configure this printer for access from my Macintosh?


texts: How to fix iPhone 4S error 29 when flashing even after replaced battery and also the IOS 9.3.6 Signed IPSW not working but should I flash IPSW 9.3.5 ?


texts: Mac's Preview app displays disabled layers in PDF. Is there a way to workaround it?

texts:
Recently I started browsing USGS Togo Maps which can be downloaded as PDF. They are displaying correctly inside Chrome browser's PDF viewer as well as Adobe Acrobat Reader on Mac. However, on the same Macbook, Preview app displays them very differently.

For example, a topo map can be downloaded from USGS at
https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/Maps/USTopo/PDF/CA/CA_Cupertino_20180914_TM_geo.pdf

It displays like the following in Preview. It looks like an aerial image and the topographic lines are hardly visible. I doubt it will look good when printed.

However, the same PDF looks fine in Chrome browser.

According to Adobe Reader this PDF contains several layers. The aerial view layer is disabled. Chrome and Adobe Reader do not display this disabled aerial layer, but unfortunately Preview does.

How can I make Preview display it the same way the other PDF viewers do? I would like to use Preview because it can export an image from the PDF at original resolution, which I am not able to make Chrome or Adobe Reader do.


texts: How to get back to Excel home/welcome screen?

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When I first open Excel, I get a handy screen with “Recent,” Template, and “Sign In” options, among other things. I don’t know what this window is called, though I guess it could be called a home screen or welcome screen or something.
When I open a document, this screen goes away. Is there a way to get it back without having to quit Excel and start it back up again?


texts:
So I was playing around with Disk Utility today. I created a second partition. Format is Free Space.

How do I undo this? As in, I want to have just one primary partition "Macintosh HD"

I've tried:

1) In Disk Utility, I select the partition tab. The "-" character is greyed out. As in, it cant be clicked on.

2) Rebooted in Recovery mode (CMD+SHIFT+R) and did above. Same result. The partition cannot be removed. The "-" button is greyed out. It simply cannot be clicked.

This is what diskutil list returns:

diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         125.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *125.1 GB   disk1 <---- I believe, this is the second partition I accidentally created, which I want to remove
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 8F5A679C-06AB-44CC-BD46-33E327446D80
                                 Unencrypted


texts: Unable to remove phantom iTunes storage under the new mac storage management tool

texts: The storage tool, opened from About This Mac, shows there is 30.15GB of iTunes data. I went into the iTunes root folder and removed all the music and podcasts. The 30.15GB remains. I have tried restarting the mac. Is this a bug or is there somewhere else I should look to delete this 30.15GB of data?


texts: Screen Not Working and Lock Button Stuck

texts: The screen has broken on my iPhone 4S and the On/Off button does not work. I had an idea that it might fix if I restart it (tell me if I'm wrong) but I can't. Is there a way that I can restart or even better update it from iTunes on the MacBook? I do know how to back it up.


texts: Need some suggestions setting up a Mac Mini

texts:
I recently got a Mac from a friend. All it has is a power cable and a cable to connect it to the monitor. On the back, it says Mac mini 2.0/2x512/120 so I'm guessing that's 1 GB RAM, and 120 GB hard drive.

I was wondering what all I can upgrade in this Mac mini. All I've heard about this model is that it is the older mini version and replacing the RAM will be tough. Any suggestions? I'm looking for RAM+HDD+Keyboard and a Mouse in the most economical margins.


texts: Dual boot Windows 7 and macos High Sierra

texts:
I have a macbook pro retina 15 inch late 2013

I am running macos high sierra 10.13.3 and i want to install windows 7 and dual boot my macbook,
I have sucessfully created a bootable windows 7 usb drive with bootcamp 5 driver in  the pen drive,
When i start installing windows 7 bootcamp show me this message
( Need 64-bit Windows installation USB drive or DVD.)

My windows usb installer have both 32 bit and 64 bit versions.

I tried to solve my problem by following these steps, given in this link

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4747024

after following thsese steps bootcamp showing diffrent error ( Need 64 bit Windows 8 installataion USB drive or DVD


texts: Unable to record screen with audio using Soundflower

texts:
The answer to  How to record both screen and sound with Quicktime on El Capitan?
 explains what to do in order to record the screen using QuickTime player with sound (both from the micro and the computer).

I followed the steps there, and although I successfully managed to install Soundflower and to add a Multi-Output device, the screen recording produced by QuickTime player has no sound.

Is there a way to check whether the Soundflower works properly?

I'm connected to an Apple display as well, so does this pose an issue?


texts:
I'm running Windows 7 in VirtualBox with Linux as a host. I'd like to sync my iPhone with iTunes installed in the VM.

I've set up USB filters in VirtualBox, and Windows sees my iPhone upon connecting, however its icon doesn't show up in iTunes.

It did show up once after a few trials, I don't know if it was random or if I did something, but I can't get it to appear again.

This is what Windows displays when I connect my iPhone:

How do I get iTunes to detect my iPhone?

I've tried restarting my computer, the VM, and the iPhone, with no progress. Also, when I click "Open device to view files", I see only the DCIM folder in "Internal storage".

iTunes version is 12.3.1 which is latest


texts: How can I do a batch conversion of HTML entities to Hanzi?

texts:
I have a huge .txt file which contains lots of HTML entities representing Unicode characters, like this:
&#21696;&#29282;&#23665;

In Pinyin, this would read "Ai Lao Shan" or "Ai1 Lao2 Shan1", to be more precise.
I need a tool or command line or Pages/Numbers macro, whatever, which replaces all strings like &#....; in said file into proper Hanzi, which in this case would be:
哀牢山

Any suggestions for a tool or script or program that runs on macOS?


texts: Search for .bashrc or other dotfiles in Finder

texts: When I search for files in my home folder that have a filename equal to ".bash_history", I don't get any results, even though that file is there. How can I search for dotfiles in Finder? (I know how to find them in the terminal, however, some programs such as Integrated Development Environments have an open dialog that forces you to go through the Finder to locate the file you want to open).


texts: iOS App Store keeps asking for password for free items

texts:
Has the option to just download free apps from the App Store without password been removed?

I tried signing in through the Settings app, the App Store no longer lets me use Touch ID for free items.

How do I make iOS App Store either not ask for password or allow Touch ID I already have the option set in Settings app.

I am running iOS 11.2.


texts: How can I invert my selection in Microsoft Excel using AppleScript? (selection itself, not properties of selection)

texts:
I'd like to invert my selection with AppleScript. This is analogous to Adobe Photoshop's (and other Adobe products) functionality "Invert selection (Ctrl/Cmd + I to deselect what was previously selected and select what was not selected)"

I can select a group of cells with AppleScript.
I can get selected range with AppleScript
I can loop selected cells
I'd like to select all cells that are not currently selected

Code
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
    repeat with item_cell from 1 to count large of selection -- all cells in selection
        --do stuff with selected cells
    end repeat

    -- index of selected cells technique, not sure whether helpful
    set sel_range to selection
    tell selection to set {rowIndex, columnIndex, rowCount, columnCount} to {get first row index of sel_range, get first column index of sel_range, get count rows of sel_range, get count columns of sel_range}
end tell

Originally Selected Cells

Desired Selection
(All cells in the sheet are selected that were not originally selected)


texts:
I have messed out a lot of things with currently installed apache. It doesn't work at all. So, I want to delete apache completely and re-install everything. I want to do completely clean installation. How would I do it?

OSX version: Yosemite

Package Manager: Homebrew


texts: what does the pie symbol mean in macOS finder?

texts: could someone explain this symbol? The files are on a AFP share which is mounted.


texts: Flickering/Blinking MacBook Pro 2015 (While Static)

texts:
Got this problem, can someone help? If external display plugged in - all ok, no blinking. Also, after waking from sleep - doesn't turn on display. Flickering only when nothing moves on the display.

I've got a video of the problem here.

UPD: Wipe and reinstall OS didn't helped.


texts: Does QuickTime automatically record stereo audio into mono?

texts:
I connect Zoom h4n Pro to my Mac via USB as audio interface. I then record audios with QuickTime.
The input of h4n is stereo; the right & left inputs are not exactly the same. But it seems that QuickTime automatically mixes the left & right channels; as a result, the generated audio file has same volumes from left and right.
Could anyone confirm me that it is true?


texts: What is the correct way to prevent MacBook Pro (mid-2010) from sleeping on lid close?

texts: I have MacBook Pro 13" mid-2010 (MacBookPro7,1), and sometimes I need it to work with the lid closed (long compilations, etc. while I'm on the go). I have tried InsomniaX, but it has no effect. I enable it via the menu bar icon and it displays "enabled", but, if I close the lid, my notebook will go to sleep in a dozen seconds or so. Any way I can prevent this? I know about the heat issue; it doesn't bother me.


texts: Cannot boot OS X on Mac after installing Ubuntu

texts: I installed Ubuntu on my Mac however when I boot up it doesn't give me an option to boot to anything like it used to, now it just boots straight to Ubuntu. I am wondering how I can boot to my OS X


texts: In the default camera roll you can't see the time and date of your photos. Is there any app I can install to have my photos displayed like camera roll just with dates? It's quite annoying to search through over 2000 photos. A date selection or sorting would be nice.


texts:
My current install of Catalina has gone a bit wonky. Every other time I start it up it displays the circle with a line through it, so I do a hard restart and it will then boot into Catalina.
I'm trying to move to Big Sur and wondering if I should do a fresh install/reformat, or if i should do a Reinstall MacOS from the recovery screen.
From what I understand Reinstall MacOS just rewrites the OS files, but keeps everything else intact like document, downloads, apps, etc...?
Should I upgrade to Big Sur first? Or Reinstall Catalina, and then upgrade to Big Sur? Or just a fresh install? (Running an iMac Pro)


texts: Using El Capitan, can I create a bootable Windows 7 USB?

texts: I have an El Capitan, can I create a bootable USB of Windows 7? I also have a Windows 7 ISO. I need to use a USB since I will be reformatting a netbook without DVD/CD-ROM drive.


texts: Why has my hard drive started spinning-up each time I eject it?

texts:
When I eject the hard drive, the disk starts to slow down but then the disk starts spinning at full speed about a second later. The hard drive is not mounted but it is still spinning. I’m afraid to unplug it when it’s in this state. If I wait about 10 minutes, it eventually stops spinning. I’d rather not have to wait around that long.

This only started happening about a month ago. It might have been due to a software update but I’m not sure. Why is this happening and how do I fix it?


texts: "USB device drawing too much power" error on startup with no devices connected

texts:
Since upgrading to Lion, I get this error every time I start up:

I've read the answers suggested here, but they seem to indicate that it's the presence of a second device that's causing the problem. The only USB device I have plugged in to my laptop is an external keyboard. I'm not sure how that's using too much power, but it's disabled my other USB ports.

Is there any way to fix this?


texts: Safari playing a youtube video in the background

texts:
I start Safari, and after a few seconds, I hear what seems to be the sound from a video. (Sounds like a british guy playing minecraft) There are no windows or tabs open to YouTube or any other video site. The sound keeps playing as long as Safari is open. Closing tabs, clearing cache, clearing history all have no effect. The sound only stops when I exit Safari. When I start Safari again, the sound starts again from the beginning.

What is going on? How can Safari play a video if no tab/window is showing a video/video site?

Edit: And how do I make it stop?


texts: Best practice: Install for all users or only current user?

texts:
I only have one account (and will never get more accounts) on my Mac.

However you often have to choose between installing stuff in /Library or ~/Library.

What's the best practice?

Does it make any difference for me?


texts: How do your rearrange the photo album icons in Photos for iPad?

texts: How do you rearrange the photo album icons in Photos for iPad? I don't want to rearrange the pictures in the albums, just the icons of the various photo albums.


texts:
After moving my computer, a Mac Pro 2013 running Sierra 10.12.6, (from one building to another, with a week or so spent in a garage), I found that it would not boot. The system drive was the internal SSD. While I was placing the computer in to a cabinet, the cylinder was unlocked and the computer dropped out and fell a few inches, and fell on to it's side. I have to assume this jostled something important enough to not boot.

I would get the Apple logo, then the circle with a line through it, then, eventually, it booted in to a utility mode with a menu to restore from Time Machine, use Disk Utility, etc.

As I understand it, that's the "Recovery Partition".

Now, I have no memory of ever creating, managing, or maintaining such a thing, but there it was.

Using the Disk Utility, I could not find the native SSD built in to the Mac Pro, but it saw my external SSDs, including my Time Machine drive.

I repartitioned one of the SSDs in to a big enough slice, and restored from Time Machine in to that new partition, and the system came back up.

So, my question is where is the Recovery Partition? I have to assume it's not on the internal SSD -- hard to imagine that simply a partition of the SSD is unmountable, vs the entire card. Is it on my Time Machine drive? That's my guess, but I don't know how to make sure.

At some level, I don't care. "It just worked" and did it's job. But I would feel better knowing that it's not on the internal SSD. My hope is that I can pop that out and push it back and it'll just work, or, barring that, I can simply replace it and nothing more untoward has happened to the machine. As it stands, it seems to be working fine save not being able to see the internal SSD.


texts: I'm looking for a device in the form of a bracelet/watch that vibrates when I receive calls and text messages; any recommendations?


texts: I have a Apple TV 3rd generation and I know that I can navigate to Settings etc to turn it off. While this works, it's kind of cumbersome. Are there easier ways to turn an Apple TV off?


texts:
Currently, my two thunderbolt monitors are Thunderbolt (1) and Thunderbolt (2). Is there a right way to change the name?
I'd love to have a Thunderbolt (Left) and Thunderbolt (Right)


texts: Thumbnails not displaying in new Photos app included in 10.10.3

texts:
I recently upgraded our family iMac to 10.10.3 from 10.9.  I migrated the iPhoto library to a Photo library almost immediately after upgrade.  I am seeing the following behaviors occur 6 or more hours after the migration completed:

Thumbnails display as blank white rectangles for some photos in the library, including some taken last year.
Double-clicking on those thumbnails to open the photo will open the photo for viewing with some of them, for others, it will display a only the blank white background of the interface.

Do I need to be patient and allow Photo to index all the photos, thereby rebuilding the thumbnails, again?  Can I instruct Photos to regenerate thumbnails again?  I tried Command+Option and opening Photos, but that just repairs the library.  I have read that does not regenerate the thumbnails.  Any suggestions are appreciated.


texts: Is it possibile have different files in different desktop?

texts:
i'm new with mac, the multiple "space/desktop" function is very cool, but it would be better if i could have different files and folder on each of my space.

For example, i want to set up a space for programming works only, and put on desktop only related to this task files. can i ? is there a way to do it?


texts: How do I snap a photo on my iPhone with the apple earphones

texts: I have an iPhone 6s and am running iOS 10. I just tried to take a photo using the earphones volume up and down but nothing triggered. I also tried another pair of earphone, but it still didn't work. Is there a setting I'm missing? or did they disable this in iOS 10.


texts: How can I diagnose a Mac running hot and having high fan usage?

texts:
My Mac is running hot with the fan cutting in often. How can I diagnose what's wrong?

PS: Some sources mentioned Activity Monitor as a tool to diagnose this, but I couldn't find the application.


texts: Remember item order in Menu bar between reboots

texts:
macOS Sierra added ability to rearrange items in the Menu bar, however after rebooting computer they reset to their previous order.

I'm not using Bartender or any Menu bar controlling apps.

How can I make icon order permanent?


texts: My Trackpad doesn't work on my MBP when I unpaired Logitech mouse

texts: I had Logitech mouse paired to my MBP/Capitan. I used Logitech Unifying Thing to unpair the mouse. Mistake: now no mouse, and no trackpad response. Keyboard still works. Rebooted MBP, no change. Is there a way to bring MBP trackpad back using only kybd?


texts:
I used to have an iPhone 5c and i used iTunes to back up it on my windows laptop.

Now I've got an iPhone 7 and I am trying to set it up but I can't.  First, I entered my iCloud and tried to "restore from iCloud backup".  It works until it is 99% and then it gives me a message that it can't be done.

I tried to get the backup from iTunes "restore from iTunes backup".  The laptop didn't recognize the phone and told me that it needs the last version.  I tried to download it but it didn't work either.

Now if I choose to "set up as new phone" will all my data be lost, especially my contacts, notes, whatapp history, photos, etc?

What do I need to do to get it working?

Thanks


texts: How do I opt out the Apple iOS beta program?

texts:
I am using the latest iOS (as of Nov 21, 2020), it's 14.2 (stable version). But the beta upgrade keeps poping out asking me to download it. It's really annoying.
How do I opt this out on my iPhone?
Thanks,


texts: Is there an equivalent on the Mac platform to Partition Magic or GParted that will allow me to resize, move, and/or change partitions on the fly without formatting, or disturbing the data that is already on the disk?


texts: Why is double time speed different on iPod vs iPhone?

texts: I have a 6th gen iPod Nano (software version 1.2) and an iPhone 4S (iOS 6.0.1) . On the iPod, I have options to listen to podcasts at ½x, 1x, and 2x time. On the iPhone Podcasts app version 1.1.2 (209), I have options for ½x, 1x, 1.5x, 2x, and 3x time. If I listen to a podcast at 1x speed on both devices, it unsurprisingly sounds the same. However, if I listen to a podcast at 2x speed on both devices, it sounds more sped up on the iPhone. The voices sound more natural on the iPod but more like chipmunks on the iPhone. Is there a reason for this difference? Why do these two Apple devices handle audio speeds differently?


texts:
I need to zip all email that have in the body this words "Identificativo messaggio: CA3DA789.008822A5.C33F80AE".
I have many email in AppleMail  so i think if it's possible to create an AppleScript that select all email that have in their body this Word "Identificativo messaggio: CA3DA789.008822A5.C33F80AE".
Once AppleScript find these mails,  unzip them and tell me where Save the file zip and with witch name.
It's possible to create this AppleScript ?

Every day i must zip the email and with search box i need of much time. So i think to use an AppleScript that work in this mode: I select an mail that contain "identificativo n. *****" and Applescript find all Mail with the same "identificativo n. *****". After selected mail, i could zip these files or stamp with their attachements.


texts:
I moved from just using zsh to using zsh inside tmux. As my terminal is iTerm2 for both combinations.

I have the following lines in my .zshrc to enable jumping words on a bare zsh command line using the ALT+arrow keys:

bindkey '[C' forward-word
bindkey '[D' backward-word

Sadly this is not working inside my tmux session.

  How can I jump words back and forth also in tmux using ALT + arrow
  key?

What I tried so far:

set-window-option -g xterm-keys on 1


texts: Any way to export multiple playlists to m3u at once?

texts: I can export a single playlist from iTunes to m3u format easily enough, but is there any way to do it en masse? I have about 40 playlists and it's exceedingly tedious to do it for all of them one at a time. I know you can dump the entire library database if you're just switching between macs but I use these all over the place. That library file is megabytes and megabytes and while I could conceivably reconstruct my playlists from the xml plist it's not ideal.


texts: Extracting multiple photos from a single quickly

texts:
I recently went through the process of scanning old photo albums (in an effort to preserve them longer digitized). I would place 2/3/4 photos on the scanner. Now I need to extract the single photos. It would also help if there was an application to quickly recognize the rectangles.

N.B.: I'm running the latest beta of Sierra.


texts: Unix commands to overrun OS X Finder shortcut cmd-opt-esc

texts:
I need to temporarily block the sequence cmdoptesc: I developed a formal examination test app for my students, and I need them to not get out of the test other than clicking a button in the test window.

BetterTouchTool accepts any shortcut except that (it seems to me, but I might make mistakes) I tried any combination, but always the forced quit window appears, as well as it happens in System Preferences > Keyboard > etc as suggested in "MacBook Pro, Yosemite: change Finder shortcuts".

I run Yosemite 10.10.5 and intend to stay with it until further upgrades will keep my Adobe suite working.


texts:
I'm having a problem installing an application (vuze). I've gone into the regular settings tab and I can't find anywhere to change any particular setting.

I looked online and I just randomly see the same security tabs I found myself so...not sure what I have to change.

Any ideas as to what I have to change in order to install this app?

I'm new to the Mac game so not sure where I have to go.

Thanks in advance.

Edit:
The message I get is

  Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the mac app store and identified developers.


texts: How to check how much battery each application uses?

texts:
How would one check how much battery an application uses from a full charge of 100%?

Are there any applications out there or is this impossible?


texts: Manually deleting the Safari cookies on Yosemite is not working

texts:
I am trying to manually delete the cookies for Safari on Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10.3.

I have done this with Chrome and FireFox before (you simply locate their cookie files and delete them). But I seem to fail when trying to do it with Safari.

My understanding is that Safari's cookie files are in

/Users/me/Library/Cookies

There are at least four files there:

HSTS.plist
com.apple.appstore.cookies
com.apple.ibooks.cookies
Cookies.binarycookies

I have closed Safari and emptied the folder. However, it doesn't seem to have worked because when I visit a website that uses cookies for user authentication, I am still logged in (which does not happen when I do it with Chrome or FireFox).


texts: Use iOS device for audio output from computer via USB

texts: I just got new Bluetooth headphones, but my Windows 10 PC does not have bluetooth. Is there a way I can play all audio from my PC to my iPhone 7 (preferably via the USB charger), and then use my Bluetooth headphones connected to the iPhone?


texts: What potentially-identfiying (personal or device) data is available to 3rd-party apps on AppleTV?

texts:
Based on experience with 3rd-generation AppleTV (Apple TV Software 6.2 (based on iOS 7.1.2) Wikipedia), I have concerns about the privacy of my usage behavior. Not from Apple per se, but from the 3rd-party apps.

AppleTV has the same "Reset Advertising Identifier" setting as iOS devices. Other than the setting to "automatically send information to Apple from Apple TV", this appears to be the only privacy setting on the device that would affect personal data leaving the device.

Other than IP address (which I can change and/or proxy), and Advertising Identifier (which I can change), are there any other data points that a 3rd-party app owner (or its own 3rd-party ad/tracking code) could use to persistently identify me or my device, and/or track my usage over time, and/or correlate my AppleTV usage behaviors to usage behaviors on other devices?

Some additional background: Some 3rd-party apps require activation from a separate computer/browser. The AppleTV app displays a unique code to be entered on a URL associated with the app owner. This appears to be a mechanism for the app owner web site to (in some cases verify a cable/satellite subscription, and) address the specific device for activation. It's not clear if there are additional privacy implications for this process.

Also note that iOS devices also have a VendorID that is consistent for all 3rd-party apps on a particular device made by the same vendor. This can be reset by (temporarily) deleting all apps from that vendor from the device. There is no similar mechanism for AppleTV.

There is no specific mention of AppleTV in the Apple Privacy policy.


texts:
I've tried Ukulele and KeyRemap4MacBook. Neither does what I need to do.

I want to map the top-row 4 key and the top-row 8 key to SHIFT. So that, for example, when I press 4 + g it types a capital G.

Hitting the shift key with my pinkie is aggravating my carpal tunnel. On my windows machine I just remapped 4 and 8 to shift and I use a keypad if I need numbers. Savior for my hands.


texts: Forwarding SMS-iMessages from a contact to another automatically

texts:
s it possible to forward messages from one contact to another automatically?
My wife and I are sharing a prepaid bank card, which is registered to my phone number. When you want to make an online purchase with it, bank sends a 3d confirmation code to my phone in an SMS. Code has a short validity period, so sometimes I'm not around/available to forward it to her. Is it possible to forward messages from my phone to hers automatically?
I tried messing with messaging settings and searched the app store, couldn't find something that does this.
Btw my phone model is iPhone 5s.


texts:
2012 iMac running el capitan 10.11.6

screen zooms in and out randomly. does it with video and maps most often.


texts: Screen saver settings keep defaulting back to National Geographic Photos

texts: I like to use my photo library for a screen saver (have 10,000 photos - it's nice to get to see them more often), but ever since I've downloaded Yosemite, every time the computer goes to sleep, it defaults back to the National Geographic photos (there are maybe 30 of them).  Really, really frustrating, and I can't find where to change the default settings to try and make an adjustment.  Anyone know how to change that default setting or have any other idea what to do?


texts: Every time I enter an url into safari it goes to a previously visited part of it

texts: Like I'm trying to go to the homepage of tv-series.me, but it keeps going to tv-series.me/psych-episode-1-blabla even though I literally type "tv-series.me" and press GO. But it just keeps going back to that page. Is that normal?


texts: I no longer have iLife.app in my Applications folder

texts:
I no longer have iLife.app in my application's folder. The latest version of iLife I have is iLife 11 from Snow Leopard: OS X 10.8.6, which resides on my MacPro 1,1.

I purchased my new iMac (2013 27″) new from B&H, in SEPT 2014, Serial Number: D25N116JF8JC; it came with the Mavericks operating system. However, in late 2014 I upgraded it to Yosemite online. I didn't like it because Yosemite no longer had colored folders and text instead it only had colored dots, so I took my iMac to an Apple Store in King-of-Prussia, Pennsylvania had them return my operating system back to Mavericks.

I must have lost iLife at this time.

I have now upgraded my operating system back to Yosemite. But, I have lost my iLife app altogether. So I cannot upgrade iDVD which is now 7.0.3, and now I get an error message saying I cannot upgrade iDVD to the next level. Also my iMovie HD.app is 6.0.3. Can you help me?


texts: Is it possible to install macOS and Windows 10 on same external SSD?

texts:
Is there anyway to install macOS Sierra and Windows 10 on external SSD drive?

I bought a new T3 250GB Samsung external USB 3 drive.

I want to install macOS on 100GB partition and Windows 10 on other 100GB partition for max speed on all OSes .

Bootcamp only offers internal HDD drive of my iMac and Windows 10 can't install on the USB drive without formatting the whole disk and which I will lose all partitions like the macOS partition .


texts: iCloud not syncing and folders are slow to refresh

texts:
I am signed into my iCloud account and I have the Desktop and Documents folder is ticked.  It does not seem to be able to complete syncing to iCloud. If I look at the small information circle on the iCloud Drive in Finder, it says something like 'Uploading 27 items to iCloud (2.9GB of 38.4GB)'.  It has been like this for a month with the same message. If I go to Activity Monitor and kill cloudd, the message might change to (5.99GB of 38GB). Maybe it is stuck on a particular file?

As well, the Finder folders that are part of Documents are very slow to update, like it can take days for a folder to reflect changes, and if I try to load an application files I can see in the Finder do not appear in the app menu. This later bug appear even on folders not syncing to iCloud.

I am using a Mac Mini with OSX 12.12.3.

How do I fix these problems?


texts:
I purchased a 3TB HDD, which I put into an USB enclosure for my iMac.  The drive is recognized at boot, but it only shows 801.23GB.

I formatted the drive with into two 1.5TB FAT32 partitions via Win7. My Windows machine shows the correct partitions, but when I attach the enclosure to my iMac it shows one 801.23GB partition.

Do you have any idea?


texts: Can I reload old iMessage conversations on a new device (iOS and OS X)?

texts:
When setting up a new iOS device or installing the Messages Beta on OS X, you can log in with your iMessage account to start receiving & sending messages with iMessage.

One advantage of iMessage is that these messages are received on all your devices — meaning that as long as you have iMessage configured on a device, you can see the history of a conversation.

But as far as I can tell, you can only see messages which have been delivered after you set up your iMessage account on a device. Is there a way to load old messages which were sent/received before setting up iMessage? (I'd like to load both old messages within a current conversation/thread, and old conversations which have not recently received messages.)


texts: Word:mac 2011 preserve table formatting on copy-paste

texts:
In Microsoft Word 2010 for Windows, I can duplicate a table simply by clicking its handle at the top-left (which selects the entire table), copying it and pasting it. When I do that in Word:mac, the table and contents is duplicated without any of the table formatting. This kinda sucks because the original table has a number of merged cells and all sorts of formatting going on. I'm basically using the source table as a template.

I just updated Office:mac 2011 to SP2.


texts:
I need to batch-process some (several hours of) audio files and get their frequency/amplitude data.

I really have 10 folders each containing many wav files and I need the averages of each folder. I need to get the levels of different frequencies across each folder, and computing the levels individually for each file then averaging would work, and if you know of another method please suggest it.

Is there a command-line tool (or other resource) that will compute these Fourier transforms for me?


texts: What voltage does a 2015 MacBook Pro 13" run on internally?

texts: Looking at the System Information under Power I've noticed that my battery's voltage when fully charged is showing as 12.4V. Am I correct in assuming then that the internal voltage used by my laptop is 12V (nominal)? If this is the case, and as long as the battery remains charged, can I run my laptop directly from an external 12VDC power supply?


texts: How to get defined lines from OS X Terminal result?

texts: How do I get the first 20 lines of a OS X Terminal result?


texts: My iphone's apps are copied onto someone else's phone each time they sync

texts: My husband and I share a computer and iTunes. We have separate Apple IDs. When my husband syncs his phone, he gets a whole new page of all the apps from my phone. I can see as it's syncing, that it's "copying" apps that are only on my phone. How do I stop this from happening? He has to go through and delete all these extra apps each time.


texts: How does iOS delete a file technically and can it potentially be undeleted?

texts:
We have an interesting discussion here about file deletion on iOS devices.
The question was: if I delete a file using NSFileManager, what's happening under the hood?

My understanding is that deletion is performed by removing the corresponding file entry from the file system table.

The counter argument is that a file handle remains in some way and only a flag gets set which marks the file as deleted. If the user had root access to the iOS device, he could potentially reset that flag and recover the file content.

In both cases we agree that the actual file content will not be overwritten and the plain bytes still exist on the flash memory/disk until the block is occupied by another file.

The idea is now: if the second version is true, we could overwrite the file with a one byte content prior to deletion (even if that byte gets written to a new location on the flash drive without actually overwriting the old content). If then the file is recovered, only the overwritten one byte content is available.

Note that we're not talking about forensic analysis of the flash drive which could maybe recover the original file content.

So to recap:

How does deletion of a file on iOS work internally?
Does the overwrite approach prevent undeletion?


texts: Export list of languages available in macOS (with endonyms)

texts:
I'm looking to export this list of languages (in English + their local name AKA endonym) available in System Preferences › Language & Region upon adding a language:

Any hints as to where it might be stored? Haven't played with this since the days of Classic Mac OS and ResEdit.


texts: How to recover lost space after a bootcamp restore failed and APFS container failed to verify?

texts:
I gave 50GB to bootcamp for Windows 10. Today, I decided I no longer want Windows 10 bootcamp. I went to bootcamp, and clicked restored. Then it said something about being unable to recover the partition space. I tried everything... I need help please. Thanks!

EDIT:
Running diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0 gives the following:

Started APFS operation
Aligning grow delta to 48,684,773,376 bytes and targeting a new physical store size of 250,685,575,168 bytes
Determined the maximum size for the targeted physical store of this APFS Container to be 250,684,547,072 bytes
Resizing APFS Container designated by APFS Container Reference disk1
The specific APFS Physical Store being resized is disk0s2
Verifying storage system
Using live mode
Performing fsck_apfs -n -x -l -S /dev/disk0s2
Checking the container superblock
Checking the EFI jumpstart record
Checking the space manager
Checking the space manager free queue trees
Checking the object map
Checking volume
Checking the APFS volume superblock
The volume Macintosh HD was formatted by newfs_apfs (748.30.63) and last modified by apfs_kext (945.250.134)
Checking the object map
Checking the snapshot metadata tree
Checking the snapshot metadata
Checking the extent ref tree
Checking the fsroot tree
error: directory valence check: directory (oid 0x3c7efb): nchildren (1) does not match drec count (0)
error: alloced_size (143360) of dstream (id 5451301) does not match calculated size (0)
error: alloced_size (143360) of dstream (id 5451301) does not match calculated size (0)
warning: apfs_num_files (2504403) is not valid (2504417)
warning: apfs_num_directories (909244) is not valid (909247)
Checking volume
Checking the APFS volume superblock
The volume Preboot was formatted by newfs_apfs (748.30.60) and last modified by apfs_kext (945.250.134)
Checking the object map
Checking the snapshot metadata tree
Checking the snapshot metadata
Checking the extent ref tree
Checking the fsroot tree
Checking volume
Checking the APFS volume superblock
The volume Recovery was formatted by newfs_apfs (748.30.60) and last modified by apfs_kext (945.250.134)
Checking the object map
Checking the snapshot metadata tree
Checking the snapshot metadata
Checking the extent ref tree
Checking the fsroot tree
Checking volume
Checking the APFS volume superblock
The volume VM was formatted by newfs_apfs (748.31.8) and last modified by apfs_kext (945.250.134)
Checking the object map
Checking the snapshot metadata tree
Checking the snapshot metadata
Checking the extent ref tree
Checking the fsroot tree
Verifying allocated space
Performing deferred repairs
error: found file extent gap (id 5451301) at logical address 0+143360
error: nchildren of inode object (id 3964667) does not match expected value
Deferred repairs failed
The volume /dev/disk0s2 could not be verified completely
Storage system check exit code is 8
Error: -69716: Storage system verify or repair failed


texts: My iphone takes photos, automatically uploads them to the cloud in a cool way and then they arrive on my iPhoto without me having to do anything - that's excellent but is it also possible for me to view the photos online through a browser or similar? Apologies if this is a particularly easy question - my google-fu is failing me today...


texts: How do I restore the behavior of the fn key after Mojave update?

texts:
I updated to Mojave yesterday and my fn key seems to have changed behavior.  Previously, I could hold fn and press delete to foward delete.  Now, if I press the fn key, it has different behaviors.

In spotlight, it clears my search.  In chromes URL window, it highlights the URL.  In vim, I'm not really sure what it's doing but it exits insert mode as a result.  I miss my fn key. :(


texts:
In macOS, one can easily get a screen capture by using key combination Command + Shift + 4.

But, are there any keyboard shortcuts that can scroll a webpage or any other pages and get the screen capture?

I am looking for a keyboard shortcut and not an app or browser extension that needs to be downloaded from the Internet or Mac App Store.


texts: AppleScript to save active Microsoft Word document IFF there is one

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I use this with Keyboard Maestro to automatically save the front-most document in Microsoft Word whenever Word deactivates:
tell application "Microsoft Word"
    if it is running then
        save active document
    end if
end tell

This works great unless there is not an active document, in which case it throws an error.
I know I could ignore the error, but I would rather not.
I would like to know if there’s a proper AppleScript way to say something like “If active document exists, then save it.”
I tried Googling but only found this (what I have now).


texts: Where is ken burns effect in iMovie 10.0.7?

texts:
I'm not finding the ken burns effect any more in iMovie 10.0.7. Is it not included anymore? Went to "crop", nothing there this time but crop itself. No more "adjust" tool either.

Where are you, Ken Burns?


texts: What's the refresh rate/sampling rate for the sudden motion sensor?

texts:
I like using my macbook pro's sudden motion sensors as an accelerometer for small at-home experiments. There are applications such as Seismac that already let you do this.

I'm now writing one myself for my own purposes, but I couldn't find the sampling rate/refresh rate for the motion sensors. This information is critical if you need to reconstruct the 3D path accurately. Does anyone know where I can find this information?


texts: Can't see "My Music" albums on iPad after resubscribing to Apple Music

texts:
I haven't been subscribed to Apple Music for one month. Today I have subscribed back. I used iTunes on Mac to do that.

Immediately all my "Apple Music" albums on a Mac returned. They also showed on an iPhone. But not on iPad.

Apple Music is working on iPad, but I just don't see any of the albums I saved for later in "My Music" section. I tried signing out and in and restarting the device. Still none of the albums are visible.


texts: How can I get admin access to a Mac without knowing the current password?

texts:
My Father died last year and I inherited his Mac Mini. My wife has retired and we are trying to set up the mini for her use but the changes we want to make require admin access and we do not have the information my father used to set up the machine.

Is it possible to reset the admin information without having the old information? If so, how would I go about it?

I am not a Mac user usually so any guidance will have to be pretty simple!


texts: How to keep mute button available during call

texts:
I use my iPhone for conference calls regularly, with a Bluetooth headset/microphone. Often I keep my mic muted except for when I speak.

It is awkward that when I want to speak, I need to wake-up and unlock my phone, before pressing the mute button.

Is there a way to make my phone stay awake during calls, without changing the sleep/lock settings generally?


texts: How do I connect my Mid-2010 iMac to my Late 2015 Macbook Pro

texts:
I mistook the mini Display Port (mDP) behind my iMac to mean it was a Thunderbolt port. The ⌘ Command F2 does not work when both ends are Thunderbolt for my setup.

Please suggest what cables to buy.

Edit: This is 27 inch iMac
 Model Identifier: iMac11,3


texts: Can Find My iPhone still locate a device if it is restored with DFU mode?

texts: How does this work? You can restore phones in DFU mode but you're faced with Activation Lock if you have enabled it. Will you still be able to locate it?


texts: How can I disable the red Software Update notification bubble on the System Preferences app in MacOS Mojave (not App Store)?

texts:
I keep the "System Preferences" app icon in my dock in Mojave. I recently checked for updates, and found one, but I'm not ready to install it just yet and the red notification dot over the settings app is really bothering my obsessive-compulsive self.

To make things worse, there's no way to disable the notification for the settings app, from the settings app.

How can I banish the notification icon until I'm ready to deal with doing updates?

(Note: this a the red notification badge/dot over the System Preferences app, not the App Store one. It is also not the big textual one that will appear in the upper right corner of the screen. And, unlike all the other questions I found while searching for this, I am in Mac OS rather than iOS.)

The closest thing I found was Why is the System Preferences Dock icon showing a Badge?, which was about iCloud security problems rather than software updates. My question isn't why, but how to ignore a software update for a while.


texts: Not able to open a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) SSD disk in Boot Camp

texts:
I have installed the full version of Paragon's HFS+. I am fully able to read/write files from the partition that boots OS X, but not an external SSD with the same format.

I get the "pling" sound when I connect it, and I find it in Disk Management (though the format of the disk is not recognized). When following the Help from HFS+, I am not able to complete Step 2:

  Call the popup menu for a HFS+/HFSX volume (right click of the
  mouse button), then select Change Drive Letter and Paths…

The "Change Drive Letter and Paths" option is grey and unclickable. The only thing I can click on is "Delete volume" or "Help".

Does anyone know what I can do to access the external SSD from Boot Camp?

diskutil cs list:

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 4B2BB594-30B4-44EF-B948-B6CFCF9C306F
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         120473067520 B (120.5 GB)
    Free Space:   12652544 B (12.7 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 3DE0D8BA-2D65-4BDC-873E-8DB03D9D89E6
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk1s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     120473067520 B (120.5 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 86D3701B-9522-409A-BFE1-BD65C802DEAB
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume C0ECB057-CE38-4C8C-B69A-14898070383E
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk2
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          120108089344 B (120.1 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               External SSD
            Volume Name:           External SSD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

Below you see a screenshot of the Disk Management window (unfortunately in Norwegian)


texts:
The iPhone has a touchscreen with a slippery surface which is important as the user can slide his/her fingers easily.

The touchscreen's surface of my one year old iPhone has become rough.

How can I restore the smooth surface of my iPhone?
Can you recommend lubricants that restore the slippery surface of the touchscreen?


texts: Not able to select a disk to reinstall OS in safe mode

texts:
I have iMac A1418 with High Sierra on it. I had to erase entire Macintosh HD disk hoping to reinstall OS on a ‘clean’ drive.

Unfortunately I’m not able to accomplish this as when I select “Reinstall macOS” in macOS utilities window and when it comes to selecting a disk on which I want to install OS, I can’t select a disk (Macintosh HD is displayed) and I can’t press “Install” button since it is greyed out.

It looks like window is waiting for me to click on desired disk - but I’m not able to do this because mouse is not functional and don’t see how I can select disk with keyboard.

I would appreciate any suggestions

UPD: eventually I resolved my issue by installing High Sierra on external SDD drive and booting iMac from it - this however doesn’t answer the question raised in this post.


texts: Is it possible to use a Mac Mini with a laptop monitor?

texts:
I want to buy a Mac Mini and I want to use it with my laptop monitor. My laptop is Lenovo Y510P. I searched some documents for using Mac Mini with laptop monitor and I only found a solution to using with an Apple laptop unfortunately.

My laptop doesn't have a video input but can I use the Mac Mini via an external video capture devices etc? Or is there a way to use Mac Mini with laptop monitor?


texts: Possible to move the cursor word-by-word with Cmd+left/right instead of Alt+left/right?

texts:
I would like to use Cmd+←/→ instead of Alt+←/→ to move the cursor word by word in Mac OSX (A Cocoa thing I guess).

Is it possible to change that?

And by the same token, I would like to move the cursor to the beginning and end of the line by using Alt+←/→ instead of Cmd+←/→.

Can it be done?


texts: Safari slow to load, flooding system.log with launchd errors

texts:
Safari has become very slow to load pages. 5 to 10 seconds to begin to display a page. The problem is isolated to Safari on this computer. Other systems and browser are ok.

The system is a 13" Early 2011 MacBook Pro running El Capitan 10.11.6. I have done all of the stuff I would normally do to diagnose as problem: run Disk Utilities, purge caches, check permissions, login via a clean user account, etc.

In Console.app I notice that the system.log is getting filled constant stream of with messages from launchd related to Safari. Most of these are related to WebContent and WebFeedParser and History.

9/22/16 6:30:28.428 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.
domain.pid.WebContent.2063) Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid,
path = /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/SafariShared.framework/
Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.Safari.WebFeedParser.xpc/Contents/
MacOS/com.apple.Safari.WebFeedParser error = 147: The specified service
did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/
StagedFrameworks/Safari/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/
com.apple.WebKit.WebContent.xpc

To a lesser extent there are also ones related to ImageDecoder:

9/22/16 6:03:05.314 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.
domain.pid.ImageDecoder.1379) Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid,
path = /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/SafariShared.framework/
Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.Safari.History.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.
apple.Safari.History error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the
requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/
SafariShared.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.Safari.ImageDecoder.xpc

Any ideas of why these are getting through into the system.log, if they are related to Safari's slowness, and how to fix.


texts: Why is macOS Recovery in Japanese, when my language is set on english?

texts:
My Macbook Pro(early 2015) functioned in english until I started up macOS Recovery to erase the startup disc with macOS Utilities.
It was originally bought used in Japan.
I would like the entire system to function in english.


texts: My storage is almost full, I can't seem to update my IOS. Is there a way to update my iPhone 5s when my storage is almost full?


texts: How can I force Parallels to ask about re-associating my USB drive with my Mac or VM?

texts: When I plug in a USB drive while my VM is running, Parallels offers a dialog lightbox asking whether the USB drive should associate with the Mac or the VM. Once this choice is made, Parallels tends to remember/respect it on every subsequent reconnect. Sometimes I want to change this association, but I don't see how I can. Is there an easy option to change the USB drive's association on the fly? Or do I need to select something to make Parallels forget all USB associations and start over?


texts: Mojave: Finder can't load any thumbnails. Even after reinstall the system

texts:
I know this's been asked a lot, but I really tried everything, but still no luck to get the thumbnails back. Here's what I already did:

Regenerated Finder related .plist files;
Toggle on and off the "Show icon preview" button;
Drag things to the icon of "Get info" then deleted it;
Reinstalled Mojave;
Tried to revert back to High Sierra with Time Machined, but the backup is probably corrupted.
Reinstalled Mojave, use Migrate Assist to refill the user files;

  qlmanage -r enable

Other sudo commands.

NONE of that worked! You can imagine how desperate I am right now. I'm a designer, and I need those thumbnails to identify the files.

Only when I created a new user account, it almost worked. The thumbnails loaded properly for a short period of time, but after reboot the machine they're gone.

If you can provide other solutions I'm really willing to try. Thanks!!

Updates:
After testing with another admin account, I find out it might have something to do with the QuicklookSatelite process. Compare to the test account, this process just won't load when needed, I'm still trying to find out what is keeping it from working.

Updates2:
Thank you! Thank you all for everything! It is indeed caused by Sketch, never thought a software can cost so much trouble. Thanks for helping me!


texts:
I want to resolve two issues: keep track of my (e)books and be able to insert and manager citations or references with Scrivener.

I would like to see what would you recommend for this.

I found and interesting tread on http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=12367 but for the moment it does not contain enough feedback for making a decision.

Please suggest answers only if you successfully used the product(s) for some time.

If you have different alternatives it would be good idea to add them as separated answers.

So far I identified:

Calibre
Papers
Bookends
Sente
EndNote
BibDesk
Mendeley
Zotero

Main features I am looking for:

ability to manage ebooks (or alt least PDF ebooks)
ability to get books information by using one or more online services
ability to build a bibliography listing
manage cites
integration with Scrivener (to insert a reference or a cite)
(optional) possibility to copy/share books to iPad and read them from there.


texts: Upgrading early 2015 Macbook pro from Mojave to Catalina/Big Sur?

texts: I have an early 2015 Macbook pro with 8GB RAM and i7 dual core processor. It runs Mojave smoothly, and I haven't upgraded to Catalina nor Big Sur. I read that Catalina won't slow things down compared to Catalina, but what about Big Sur?


texts: How to get back old configurations of app windows if lost because of reboot?

texts:
Macbook froze (the rainbow beachball was just twirling) because of low memory, so I needed to do a reboot using the power button.

Might have done a safe mode reboot (not sure).

After I restarted all of the windows, PDFs, etc where not back on the screen. Restarted again choosing not to start up with the same windows, hoping the old setup would appear again.

This time some app windows such as Evernote and Safari was back to normal but not the PDFs.

Is there some way to get back the old setup of app windows? Perhaps with Time Machine or some backup cache.


texts: How to refer to Applescript dictionary objects with spaces in the name

texts:
I'm trying to write an Applescript that accesses EyeTV (yes, I still have one running!). I'm trying to list the recordings in the programs window. From the dictionary:

application n [see also Standard Suite] : the EyeTV application
  elements
   contains player_windows, programs, recordings, channels, favorites lists.
  properties
   current recording (double integer, r/o) : unique id of the current (frontmost) recording. Returns 0 if there is none.
  programs window (programs_window, r/o) : schedule dialog

Further down in the dictionary is:

programs_window n [inh. window] : window containing the list of programs and recordings
  elements
   contains programs, recordings.
  properties
   selection (list of list) : A list containing every selected recording, channel or schedule (program) in the programs window, depending on what the current category is.

If I right click the dictionary and choose "New script" it will helpfully start the script for me:

tell application "EyeTV"

end tell

I then add the line that is the problem:

tell application "EyeTV"
    set recordList to recordings of programs window
end tell

If I compile this I get "Syntax Error Expected end of line but found class name."

If I use programs_window instead, on running the script the error will be The variable programs_window is not defined.

I found a script someone else has written to export recordings from EyeTV to Plex, and it uses programs window. If I copy and paste the whole script and try to compile it I again receive the error Syntax Error Expected end of line but found class name.

I'm unsure how to proceed. Should I be referring to the programs window property of the application or the programs_window class? How can I get rid of the errors?

I have a copy of the AppleScript Language Guide but it seems to say nothing on the topic of application dictionaries.

Any help with this would be much appreciated.


texts: How to turn off shuffle in Apple Music on iPhone iOS 10.1.1?

texts:
When I play any album in Apple Music on my iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 10.1.1, the tracks are shuffled. i.e. when I press the >> button some track other than the next one is played.

The only icon related to shuffling that I can see anywhere in the app is 'Shuffle all'.

When I play an album I want to hear the tracks in the original order. How do I achieve this?


texts: Windows 8 Pro on MacBook Pro 15" early 2011. Multitouch and reversed scroll?

texts:
I've installed the newly released Windows 8 Pro on my MacBook Pro, and I'd love to get multi-touch gestures working such as pinch to zoom and 3 finger middle click tapping. I'd also like to reverse the scrolling so that it's like Mountain Lion.

Has anyone got any ideas of what would work, or what was great in Windows 7 so that I could try?

I used one under Windows 7, I think it was trackpad++ or something, but I found this to be a bit flaky, and it used to require updates which broke it and required re-installing. I'd rather avoid that if possible.

Thanks in advance.


texts:
I have found myself to grow fond to CentOS's command prompt which looks like the following:

 [user@host directory]$ cmd

I, personally, do not like how Mac OS X Terminal is laid out, which is:

 host:directory user$ cmd

Is there any way to change the prompt of Terminal's commands to make it look more like the first one? I am very new to these things.


texts: Rotate a video taken on an iPhone, and save it as an MP4

texts:
I was recording a video on an iPhone and I had it "upside down" by mistake, meaning the camera was in the bottom-right corner rather than the top-left.

When I watch the video on my Mac in Quicktime, the orientation is fine, anyway, but when I watch it in VLC, then it is upside down. I want to fix the orientation because I want to convert the video from MOV to MP4, and this would also make it upside down (because it loses the orientation/rotation metadata that the MOV file contains, to properly orient the video).

How can I properly rotate the video so that it looks correct?

I tried a few methods already, but none worked. For instance, I tried this (Can HandBrake flip/rotate a video?), but that didn't work for me. I also tried this (
video captured from iphone gets rotated when converted to .mp4 using ffmpeg
) but I got a few errors in Terminal when running the commands, like regarding experimental features, etc.


texts: Upgraded my iMac 5k 2017 to Catalina 10.15.6 with latest patches, I cannot see the SDcard anymore. How to fix?

texts:
As above. I am using the built-in SDcard reader. Thank you!

I've tried 2 SDcards and both won't show up in:

Finder
Disk Utility
diskutil terminal command

Things I've tried:

Check System Report to confirm the built-in SDcard reader is still there. It is still there.
There's no problem reading and writing into the cards using my camera.
There's no problem reading and writing into the cards using Windows 10 (I tried a different PC)


texts:
I have

iPhone 5 (with iOS 8.3)
MacBook Pro Early 2013 (with OS X Yosemite 10.10.3)
iPad Air (with iOS 8.3)

My iPhone is paired with the MacBook, so e.g when my phone rings, I can see it in my computer. But when I want to AirDrop photos from my iPhone the MacBook, then I can't see the MacBook in my iPhone AirDrop targets.

I can see the iPad, I can see my wife's iPhone, but not the MacBook.

On MacBook, I can see the iPad, my wife's phone and even my iPhone and I can drop to there, but not the other way around.

Before I started troubleshooting, the iPhone and MacBook were mutually invisible (I only saw iPad from both). After a while of trying things and sending files back and forth, my MacBook started to see the iPhone, but I did not manage to make it work from the other way. Still, the iPhone seems to be much "less" visible than the iPad - which I see almost instantly and always, the iPhone only seems to appear after a while.

Just to make it clear:

both iPhone and MBP have BT turned on
both have AirDrop visibility set to Everyone

I would be glad for any suggestions to fix this - what settings to check, logs, whatever.


texts: Applescript - Unable to find resource when inside application

texts:
I have a regular Applescript application bundle that executes an applescript file when it's run. I'm trying to run a shell file that is located at "/Contents/Resources/Data/df.sh", however with the code I'm using, it keeps giving me "resource not found" errors.

set bashFile to path to resource "df.sh"
do shell script "bash " & bashFile

I'm really new to Applescript, so there's the chance I'm doing something obvious wrong.


texts: Stronger speaker for iPhone 4, is it possible to buy?

texts: My speaker on my iPhone 4 is not as strong as I want it to be, I am not hearing it well when someone calls me - the ringtone is too quiet. It is set to maximum, but still too quiet for my taste. Is there a 3rd party seller that has a stronger speaker?


texts: Where can I remove a desktop in Mission Control?

texts:
In Mission Control, I can add a desktop by pushing the button on the top right.

How do I remove a desktop?

Or where in my system preferences do I look to do this?


texts: running email server (postfix?) on plain Mavericks (NOT server)

texts:
I need to run a very simple email server on a plain (non-OSX Server) Mavericks box (Mac mini). All I need to do is be able to receive email with attachments, send it to a Perl/Python script, and send simple reports via email from the Perl/Python script. Basically, my script processed the email, including the attachment, and either sends an email report to the sender or to a mailing list. I've done this on an old Linux box with postfix, but I need to move this to a newer/faster machine - this Mac mini running Mavericks. When I try to search on this, everything I get is for OSX Server, but I don't have OSX Server. I know from experience that you can't follow regular Linux instructions for OSX, it's too different. I need this server to start itself whenever the device restarts, as well. This is a protected server on a LAN and will never receive email from outside, so I don't have security concerns. I need the simplest, most robust setup I can find. Doesn't have to be postfix, but it's what I've used before. The traffic load will be very small (maybe 20 emails a day, max).

Update: This is the recipe I used for my old CentOS box. As I recall, it took me a while to get it working. I'm looking at it again now, but I'm honestly hoping there's a simpler solution.

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix


texts: Impacts on Hard Drive when boot externally in MacBook Pro

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I am using MacBook Pro Mid 2012 and it's been running really slow for the past few weeks and i was able to recover from that when I plugged the hard drive externally, so i think the issue is with the hard drive cable, even though my problem is not this, glad if you could mention something about this too. I don't have any other option than booting externally until I get this fixed which might take a week or so.

Will this have a bad impact on my hard drive?. What are the things that i should worry about other than loose connections?


texts: changing forward slash key to return key

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I've just bought a new Macbook Air and the keyboard is an International English keyboard instead of an English keyboard.

This means that the return key is too far away. Normally the return key is where the forward slash key is and the forward slash key is above the return key.
I have small hands and to use the return key in its current location I have to move my hands to the left.

Ditto there's a key between the z key and the shift key, a squiggly line and accent underneath it, which isn't there in the standard keyboard I'm used to.
I've downloaded Ukulele but it doesn't seem to be able to change the return key. Apple said the same thing. I can change all the other keys, but not the return and shirt keys, the very two I need to change.

Any ideas anyone?


texts: A better workflow for screen real estate than spaces?

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My impression of the general feeling toward spaces is that it's a good idea that doesn't work very well and so most people don't use it. I do use it and I can't imagine having all my windows open on one screen as being easier to navigate.

I'm interested in any better workflows people have in play.

My primary machine is a 15" MBP (no separate monitors), with a space each for mailplane, browsers, omnifocus, evernote, and two clear work spaces for whatever projects I am working on with relevant apps and windows within.


texts: Internet Sharing supports WEP but not WPA?

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I am trying to make a WiFi hotspot through my MacBook. It has Snow Leopard 10.6.7 on it.
The thing is that when I go to sharing and then configure internet sharing, it only gives the choice of using WEP password encryption.

Is it possible to use it with WPA or WPA2? If yes, how?


texts: Is it possible to use a SD card as virtual memory in OS X Server?

texts: I have a 8gb High Performance SD card that I would like to use as swap (virtual memory).  Is this possible in Mac OS X Server, and if so how do I go about doing this?


texts: How to take screenshots in rapid succession

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Spamming cmd-shift-3 only takes a screenshot every second or so.
How can I take screenshots more frequently than this? So that e.g. double-tapping cmd-shift-3 will take two screenshots?
I remember being able to take fast screenshots in the past, maybe before Big Sur or Catalina.


texts: Lost Apple ID password and security questions and answers

texts: I lost my Apple ID password and security questions and answers. What do I do?


texts: Do you need OS X Server to do SUS updating?

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I have 5 Macs and want to use one as the source for updates.

Do this have to be OS X Server or can I use 10.6?

See http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/apple-in-the-enterprise/apple-os-x-server-caching-and-software-update-services/

I understand how to redirect the clients but don't know how to get a "host" machine. Is this a server only thing?


texts: Is it safe to remove the "Install Xcode" application after installation?

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Is it safe to remove the Xcode 4 installation program from my Applications folder after I installed Xcode? If there is a free update, will I still get it, or do I have to buy it again?

The installer is 4,58 GB, which is space I could use on my hard drive!


texts: How Do You Change The Default Genre Artwork in iTunes?

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If you look at the album art for "Alternative Rock" and "Electronica," iTunes automatically puts up default album artwork and for specific cases, like "Acoustic Rock," it uses the album art of the music artist.

How can I change the album artwork to something I want then?

For example, I would change the default album artwork for "Alternative Rock" to an image different from "Alternative" music, etc.


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I would like to play music (nuryl) on the bluetooth speaker (for my son), while listening to a different app (siriusxm) via headphones. Possible? Iphone 6S.
Thank you for any information.


texts: Do the Airpods Pro change how your internal voice sounds?

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This is just a question for owners of Airpods Pro. I've noticed that with regular earbuds that seal with a foam or soft plastic tip, the seal makes your internal voice sound weird. This is very jarring and makes speaking normally very difficult. This makes earbuds very uncomfortable to use for meetings/phone calls.
Apple's regular wired earbuds don't have a perfect seal, and talking with them in doesn't change the way my voice sounds to myself. This is good, but the earbuds also don't fit well in my ears and keep falling out.
I can't find anyone talking about this online, possibly because I don't know what terms to search for. I'm wondering if anyone with Airpods Pro can let me know:

Are you familiar with this problem? It's possible that not everyone experiences this.
Do the Airpods Pro have this problem, where your voice sounds different to yourself? Does this change if you use Transparency mode?


texts: Compare my iTunes library with the iTunes Store's

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Is there a way to compare my iTunes library with the iTunes Store's library, so I can find what songs I'm missing by a particular artist?  Ideally, I would be able to compare the Store and my Library by Song Title, Artist or Album name.

I did this manually recently to see what Beatles songs I was missing.  It took a lot of time and printed pages of my iTunes Library just to find the names of the 7 songs that I needed.  There must be some easy way to let the computer do the search and comparison.


texts: I could not enter my mac, because I did not remember the password and then I changed it and tried to enter several times, but it does not let me.  I only have the close button and the password box.  I have written several times the new password and it does not take it and the other thing that I do is close the screen.  I have shutdown and restarted and nothing happens.  What can I do?  please help me :(