texts: My MacBook Pro 2017 camera images not clear

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I bought a MacBook last year but I never tried the camera, but now I realise the camera is not good. The picture below is from Photo Booth.

Is it possible to reset this?


texts: change multiple monitor arrangement using command line in MacOS

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Is it possible to arrange multiple monitors using the command line or some textual setting in MacOS? I want to have finer control of how the monitors line up.
I have heard of https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer but am hoping to do this without needing to install some software.


texts: I want to factory unlock my iphone 5 from Sprint operator. Can it be done for free or have I use an internet ? Thanks for helping:)


texts: How to access Windows share from an iPad?

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I didn't find any iPad app that's supporting samba.

What is the best way to access Windows shares from an iPad?


texts: Is it possible to change the default gateway of the DHCP server side of an Airport Extreme

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I will try to be brief. In my career I have always used the upper end of the subnet for network devices. For instance, I use .250-.254 for network devices such as the routers. I am very fond of using .254 as the default gateway for internal networks. Is there a way to change the private network default gateway of the Airport Extreme to x.x.x.254? As an example, the factory default network is 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0 with a default gateway of 10.0.1.1. I would like to change the gateway to 10.0.1.254.

By the way, I think this community has put together a fantastic site.


texts: How can I use two iPads and one Apple ID and still have different content on each iPad

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I have two iPads and I've backed up and transferred everything onto the second iPad. So now they are identical in loaded apps and data. But I want to use them for different purposes, pleasure and business.

How can I delete things on only one iPad without them being deleted from the other as well.


texts: Use one modifier key as multiple modifier keys?

texts: I'm working on the key remapping on OS X. I don't always use Caps Lock, but I want to utilize this key to be: Command+Alt+Control, how is that going to be possible?


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The Disk Utility on my Mac shows 100GB of usage by 'Other'.

I had a look inside ~/Library/Caches, but I did not see anything taking up too much space in there.

I even tried using an app called "Clean my Mac". It didn't do much good.

Here is my question:
How do I find and delete the files that are taking up nearly 100GB of space and are marked as 'other' in Disk Utility.

I am on El Capitan on a 13 inch 2015 MacBook Pro.


texts: How to omit apps from external drives in "Open With" menu?

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I maintain a SuperDuper! clone of my primary boot drive for backup purposes. When it's mounted, Finder's "Open With" menu shows duplicate applications. When I unmount it, they go away.

How do I configure OS X not to show applications from external drives in "Open With"?

Note: there is a related question involving duplicate "Open With" items. However, it's not related to external backup drives and its answer -- rebuilding the LaunchServices database -- does not solve my problem.


texts: Does Reinstalling Mac OS from Recovery Clears App data?

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I need to reinstall Mac OS from recovery since Disk Utility was unable to repair some disk errors.

I have few notes in the notes app and important Bookmarks/opened tabs in both Chrome and Firefox, Which I don't want to lose.

Does this kind of data remain after reinstall? or any other way to repair disk errors without losing on this data?


texts: How to stop iPhone 6 lock screen from rotating to landscape mode

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I have an iPhone 6, running iOS 11. Before iOS 11, the lock screen would never rotate to landscape mode (similar to home screen, that never rotates). Since iOS 11 my lock screen has started rotating to landscape mode. I don't want this behaviour.

Can I stop my lock screen from rotating to landscape mode while letting the other apps auto rotate to landscape mode normally?

UPDATE

I have exact steps to reproduce:

Unlock phone
Open an app that supports landscape mode
Rotate the phone to landscape
Lock the phone while it is in landscape mode

Now the lock screen is in landscape and it is "locked" in landscape until I unlock the phone.


texts: How do I locate and disable background PGP and Kapersky start up programs?

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I had to uninstall Kapersky by deleting the application but the item still shows up on my task bar when I restart.

Also, I have PGP installed on my mac, but when I telnet to port 25 of another server, I get a "PGP Universal Proxy" service that I want to disable.

I don't see any way to disable either of these in the default GUI and assume this is buried in some OSX specific configuration.  Where should I look?


texts: Mysterious early morning cellular data usage

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On my iphone 4s, there are these cellular data usages ranging from 1MB to 80 MB between 1 AM to 3 AM. This happens everyday. anybody knows what's going on and how to avoid it? During that time I am sleeping and the phone is connected to the WiFi.

Secondly I have noticed that when I lock my phone, it starts using cellular data instead of WiFi!!!

I have iOS 8.

Try checking your data usage history, as it seems like a known issue. A lot of people did complain but I can not find a solution to it.


texts: Control AppleTV 4K volume on monitor with speakers

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Equipment:

Apple TV 4K
iiyama ProLite E2273HDS LED monitor, with built-in speakers
iPad Pro
iPhone 6S

Connection:

HDMI, from Apple TV to monitor

I am temporaily using my Apple TV 4K with a computer monitor, instead of a conventional TV - connected via HDMI.

It's working great, except that the only way I've found to control the volume of the built-in speakers is via the very fiddly on-screen menu.

Is there an easy way via the Apple TV to control the sound volume on a computer monitor with built-in monitors, without using the monitor's on-screen menu?

Things I've tried:

Using the volume control on the Apple Tv's remote - it tells me to use the remove control for my TV, which doesn't exist
Use AirPlay or Screen Mirroring on iPhone and iPad to send to AppleTV - the iOS devices then don't allow the volume to be changed
Search online for inline HDMI devices to control volume - I didn't find anything


texts: what is the best way to get my gmail contacts on my ipod touch contacts list

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i have a new ipod touch and i want to get my gmail contacts available on the ipod touch contacts.

what is the best way to do this?


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I just subscribed to a bunch of podcasts for the first time.
Never had podcasts on my phone or iTunes before today.
I would like to sync them directly to my phone without saving them permanently on my computer.
Is this possible ootb?
Is there a free app that would make it easier?


texts: How to access macOS dictionaries without Dictionary.app

texts: In Mac-OS Catilina, how can I convert the included dictionaries (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary etc.) into a format readable without requiring Dictionary.app?


texts: Reset Uniform Type Identifiers on Mac OS X

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A colleague of mine has developed a Mac OS X application that creates files with a relatively common file extension in my research field (.fits, an official image format for professional astronomical data). The problem is that these files have nothing to do with the official FITS format, and his application declares a uniform type identifier (UTI) associated with his .fits extension!

Now the metadata of official FITS files, obtained with the mdls command, associate his UTI to these files, which screws up some other tools that I have that normally support official FITS files (a quicklook plugin, a viewing application). I erased his application, but the metadata still list his UTI for official FITS files...

Is there any way to reset the UTIs that are "known" on my system? Or the association between UTIs and applications?


texts: How do I show All Files under the current folder?

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When I go to search and don't enter any limiting criteria, nothing shows up.  How do I show all files including in sub-folders under the current directory in the Finder?  The end goal is to sort all my files by date and be able to manipulate them in the Finder.

I tried entering "*" in the search box.  The first time I did this it somehow got turned into search for a name containing "*" which showed nothing.  A second time I managed to just get "*" by itself, but only about 20,000 of 500,000 files were displayed.

(note:  i rounded, the actual number of files shown/total are close to the above numbers but are not these exact round numbers)


texts: Apple Mail generating Mail[378]: No worthy mechs found. What is it?

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I know it's Apple mail because the PID of the running Mail is 378

378 ??        44:44.93 /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail -psn_0_28679

In the Syslog file I'm getting is:

Mail[378]: No worthy mechs found

Does anyone have any idea why this shows, or what this is.

I'm running postfix and dovecot on 10.10.3


texts: How can I upgrade from Mac OS X Tiger 10.4?

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If I buy a regular retail Snow Leopard disc (i.e. the £25 version), can I use it to upgrade a Mac from Tiger (10.4)?

This answer on the Apple Store’s Q&A site suggests it’ll work, but Apple seem to imply that you need the (significantly more expensive) Mac Box Set (“the Mac Box Set is the best way to upgrade your Mac experience, especially if you're still using Mac OS X Tiger.”).


texts: Mac Pro will not shut down after Lion upgrade

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I use Font Agent Pro as my font manager of choice. I just upgraded my 2007 Mac Pro from the latest OS X 10.6 to 10.7.5 lion.

I was having a problem with Postscript Type 1 fonts not being available to Adobe or other applications, so I cleared the font cache from Terminal.

sudo atsutil databases -remove

After doing so, my Mac will not shut down - when I try to shut down the screen goes gray but the cursor can still can be moved around

I have to hit the power button to shut down manually.

Any ideas as to why this is happening?


texts: Restoring Contacts groups from Time Machine

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For reasons unknown, everything just completely vanished from my Contacts (including contacts and all of my groups).  Note, these are all Contacts that were stored on my Mac -- I don't use iCloud and they are not synced anywhere else.

No problem -- I have a Time Machine backup, so I enter TM, scroll back in time to yesterday, and there they are.  I select all and restore all of my contacts.  Back in the present, all of my individual contacts are there.  But none of the groups are.

I've just spent several hours fruitlessly trying to figure out how to restore my groups.  One thing that has not worked is copying the entire Application Support > AddressBook folder from my Time Machine to my user library:  when I try this, and then restart Contacts, the entire list is empty again.  (I don't understand this behavior at all, by the way.)

  Where does Contacts store my group metadata?  How can I restore it from a Time Machine backup?


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I have a desktop computer with an Nvidia 9700 GTX graphics card. I'm using the DVI port on the desktop with the Mini-Display Port DVI adapter to plug in to my mid-2011 iMac Thunderbolt port.

I boot the computer in Target Display Mode (holding T at startup), and all I get is the thunderbolt/firewire screensaver, not my desktop.

I'm assuming their might be a different adapter, or that I need a different graphics card? I'm willing to shell out the money, just haven't found a concrete answer on the internet. Thanks.


texts: Use automator to make pdf look like scanned

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I like the idea of the site - http://lookslikescanned.com
But sometimes it doesn't work as expected.

I'd like to automator script on my Mac, so I can right click on a pdf in finder click convert to scanned ... and the output is file that looks as scanned. Preferably in the same folder just with added text on the end of the name "scanned". Like so.

To make it like this

For this I use terminal and the program ImageMagick

and here is the command line.

convert test.pdf -colorspace gray \( +clone -blur 0x1 \) +swap -compose divide -composite -linear-stretch 5%x0% -rotate 0.5 test-scanned.pdf

My question is how can I transfer it to automator?

Note: the script works on images only. I'd like to use it on pdf


texts: Is it possible for my HTC phone to interupt my music when I receive a call?

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I frequently miss incoming telephone calls because I am listening to my iPod Touch.

Does anyone know if it's possible for my iPod to detect incoming calls on my mobile phone (an HTC Desire) and alert me to the phone call?

I've seen bluetooth connection devices that purport to do this (such as the GEAR4 BluEye), but they are several years old now.

However given that this kind of hardware exists, and that the iPod Touch has Bluetooth built-in, I wondered if there was an app or setting that would enable the phone and iPod to work together in this way?


texts: Mac Boot Camp Assistant - how to always show operation system selection when restarting?

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I don't want to have a default one - I want the option to choose which one I want each time I restart my Mac without having to press the Option Key.
Is it possible? and how?


texts: How can I activate an iPhone 5s locked to another person's iCloud account?

texts: I bought a used iPhone 5s and unknowing to me it is locked to an iCloud account with a gmail address (p*****@gmail.com). I formatted the iPhone and upon activating it the iCloud prompt appears and frankly speaking I can't trace the old user of the phone. Please what can I do to activate it because i don't have a clue where the previous owner lives. Please help me because I used my savings to purchase the phone.


texts: What does the keyboard shortcut ⌥⇞ mean?

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I'm in need of a translator for ⌥ ⇞

This screen shot below is from the TexStudio and Texmaker latex editors.


texts: How do I connect my Bose QC35 with my MacBook Pro under iOS?

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My MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018 - OS Version 10.14.1 (18B75)) doesn't connect to my new Bose QC35. On the other hand, it connects without issues to my Pixel 3 XL.

I first connected without issues to my Pixel 3 XL named it Carol and then clicked on pairing other devices. Bose QC35/Carol didn't show up in the device list on the MacBook Pro.

To fix this I reset the device list on the Bose by longpressing on the bluetooth connection button and disabled Bluetooth on the Pixel while I did it. Unfortunately, that didn't help either.

When I boot Windows 10 on the MacBook Windows 10 has no problem connecting with the Bose QC35.

How do I get my Bose QC35 properly connected via Bluetooth with the MacBook Pro under iOS?


texts: How do I set a textfields string to a variable in AppleScript?

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I want to set the text in a text field to a variable, in this case called variable1. Here's the part of my script.

on button836_(sender)
    set variable1 to quoted form of POSIX path of (choose folder with prompt "Choose")

That's the first part. But I also wanted to set the text in textField to the value of variable1.

I tried doing this:

    textField's setString:variable1

But it didn't work. Usually, I have a script that returns the value, and doing textField86's setString:script837 etc. usually works, but it's different here. I even tried this stupid solution:

    set variable1script to do shell script "echo " & variable1
    textField's setString:variable1script
    end button836_

Which should work but it just tells me:

2015-11-26 15:12:27.077 [etc.] AppDelegate button836:]: -[NSTextField setString:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x6100001e0200 (error -10000)


texts: Will my iPhone charge slower if I connect it to my laptop?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Charging an iPhone, difference between USB port and power outlet

Will my iPhone charge slower if I connect it to my laptop than if I connect it directly to the plug ?


texts: My windows 7 partition has a startup problem. The system will not start, even in safe mode, it gives me an error. If it were a windows machine, I would probably put in a startup disk, but I do not have one. I can read the files on the drive from the mac side, but the system will not start in windows. It worked great before this but it must have gotten a virus. help


texts: Several users simultaneously on a Mac mini

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We are a small team of developers and we would like to buy a Mac mini in order to develop for iOS.

We would like to know if it is possible for several users to log in remotely to the Mac mini (using VNC or something similar), each of us having his own desktop (not as VNC does by default).

Is this possible? If yes, which software does it require? (The client machines run on Windows.)


texts: No applications respond to trackpad clicks

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I had a application called Boxcryptor which recently threw some errors (version expired, upgrade, etc.) and left the system in a unusable state.

My MacBook running Lion no longer responds to mouse (trackpad) clicks on any windows. I am able to move the mouse pointer but clicking on any controls in application does not work. The window does not even register the click (doesn't even get focused).

However, I am able to launch Terminal from Spotlight and managed to cleanly uninstall Boxcryptor using the provider Uninstall.Command. I also uninstalled some other potentially problematic applications like USB Overdrive. It doesn't help.

I have walked through several standard checks.

Verify/Repair disk permissions -- done; found some errors and fixed them.
Verify/Repair Disk - none found.
Rebooted in safe mode tried doing resetpassword to reset user directory permissions but unable to focus the controls in the dialog to execute the reset.
turned on "Use tabs to navigate for all controls". Doesn't have a effect in the Recovery mode.
Unable to press Enter to execute (nor mouse click) any focused controls.. so unable to launch Lion Reinstall in the recovery mode.
In console I see "Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication" for Dock. however KillAll Dock does not fix it. In my case though none of the UI widgets respond to any clicks.

Any other ideas I could try to fix this?

Update: I managed to start Lion reinstall by selecting it with arrow keys tab to focus "continue" and hitting space instead of enter to start it. However, I am stuck at the validate license when it tries to login to appstore. Can't make that window get Focus to type in username/password.


texts: How to replace a folder that's name is a date i.e. YYYYMMDD with folder hierarchy of year, month, date?

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I have a list of folders which have dates for names. The dates are in the format YYYYMMDD (e.g. 20150129). Within these folders are text documents which are related to that specific date.

I would like to restructure them in a folder hierarchy going from year to month to date, and to move the text documents into the corresponding 'date' folder lower down in the hierarchy.

In other words I would like the 'root' folder to be named after the year like 2015, and then create sub-folders named with months like 01, and then create further sub-folders named with dates like 29 which hold the corresponding text documents.

So the path would look like 2015/01/29/file.txt or 2015>01>29>file.txt.

I have taken a look at Automator and it seems that something like this is not possible although I could be wrong, so I would like to know...

Is there some easy solution to this problem that any layman can understand, for example an Automator workflow, or does this require some understanding of terminal commands and regular expressions?
How would one solve this problem provided there is in fact a solution?


texts: Apple TV A1469 Wi-Fi Direct not available

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Everything I read (specifically: http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/23/peer-to-peer-airplay-apple-tv-ios-8/) states that the Apple TV A1469 running Apple TV Software version 7 and newer offers Wi-Fi Direct (aka peer-to-peer Wi-Fi) connectivity for Apple devices running iOS version 8 and newer so that AirPlay can be used without either device being connected to an access point.

This is almost exactly the setup that my family has - an Apple TV A1469 running the newest Apple TV Software version 7.0.3 (6917) and an assortment of iDevices (iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6, iPad Air, iPhone 5, etc) which all run iOS version 8.1 and newer.

However, none of these iDevices are able to utilise Wi-Fi Direct - AirPlay will only display if the Apple TV and iDevice are both connected to the same Wi-Fi network. See below for evidence of this.

Apple TV connected to the "Wiffy [2.4GHz]" Wi-Fi network:

iPhone 6 connected to the "Wiffy [2.4GHz]" Wi-Fi network:

AirPlay available on the iPhone 6 to the Apple TV, both connected to the "Wiffy [2.4GHz]" Wi-Fi network:

Apple TV disconnected from all Wi-Fi networks:

AirPlay not available on the iPhone 6:

Apple TV current software version:

Apple TV software up-to-date:

iPhone 6 current software version:


texts: Can you add an accented characters to the querty keyboard on the iPad?

texts: I'm looking to add another layer to the querty keyboard on the iPad so I can get accented characters.  Can I do that?


texts: How to convert a CorelDraw file to Adobe Illustrator CS5?

texts: Assume I have a CDR file, Adobe Illustrator CS 5 and no CorelDraw. How can I convert this CDR file to AI file? What is the fastest and cheapiest way?


texts: External display not working with MacBook in clamshell mode (laptop lid closed)

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I have seen the previous posts about this and have followed them but it didn't work. Particularly this seemed really promising until it didn't work :)

I have a 2015 MacBook Pro that I use with an external monitor till last week. All of a sudden the monitor doesn't work and instead gives me a "Invalid input error" message. It still works when the laptop lid is open though. I was using 10.15.3 when I saw the error, then updated to 10.15.4 and still doesn't work. Anyone else seeing this error? Its driving me nuts.

I also tried a MacBook Air and it works fine. So at least I know the display is working fine and the issue is with the MacBook Pro.


texts: Used to be possible in Snow Leopard to move an app between `desktops` with a keyboard shortcut?

texts: You could assign a keyboard shortcut to move the app with focus to a specific desktop.  Can't find this in Lion.  Anyone know if it's still possible?


texts: Time Machine backup constantly transferring 30gb+

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I have mac book pro mid 2015 with high sierra.  I backup to time capsule network drive.  Initial backs ups transferred like this.

day 1 250gb
day 2 80gb
day 3 60gb

It would then do small backups regularly with no issues, which corelates with my daily usage but on day 15, it started transferring 30gb+ again.  So whenever I do have laptop open, it never completes transfer or backup. Latest complete backup is maybe a week ago.

I use the laptop every day, but apart from a few music album downloads, I'm not a heavy downloader.

My total space used is currently 257gb (500gb total).  Only thing I can think might cause it to act up, is I have some VMs on my machine that might cause it to think it needs to transfer those images constantly.  I have google drive, and icloud for offline backups.

Edit: How can I stop this from happening, and create a backup.


texts: Housekeeping before upgrading to new OSX

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I would like to go for a fresh install, but I've got GB's of Mail archives, iCloud Photos, etc. Therefore I always end up doing just the upgrade on top of the existing OS.

This time I would like to spend sometime to go for a fresh install, then restore mail archives and photos. Can time machine help me with this? Any guides as to how?


texts:
I see a Database.db file with size zero bytes on my Macintosh HD

Is this a system file? i am not sure if this is something i can remove or the purpose of this file

Regards


texts: Changed iCloud password but Yosemite password not changed

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I recently changed my iCloud password on my iPhone but the password to log in to my Macbook Pro (running Yosemite) hasn't changed. When I click change password it says that my account is using my iCloud password.

How do I get my Mac to update the password it is using?


texts:
I have some old .xif image files from a scanning application (Pagis / Scansoft) that I'd like to view/ convert to PDF. Tried all kinds of viewers - Preview, Xee, Adobe (including Photoshop) with no luck.

Please note, as far as I know, .xif / .xiff has nothing to do with exif for cameras.

http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/xif

Thanks very much,
John


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How to enable my MacOS smoother? I have a feeling that FPS in macos is really low, I have checked that with iStats Menu app and I have from 4 to 30 FPS which is really bad result and it can be felt when you are work on this machine. Is there any way to increase FPS or refresh rate?
I have MacBook Pro 15" from 2018 2.6GHz + 16GB RAM.


texts: Is it possible to remove Web Searches from Spotlight?

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when I am searching anything with spotlight a category Web Searches appears at the bottom of the results. Clicking these links Safari opens and would search the web or wikipedia. But I never use these web searches and I would like to remove them.

Removing Webpages from the spotlight system preferences did not help.

I found several instructions on removing Developer and Others, or to rate the dictionary results up.

All these make use of ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist.

Maybe it is possible using this file, but I was not able to find out the proper value for the name key in order to remove the Web Searches category. Or maybe there is another solution to this problem?

Any suggestions? I am using OS X Mavericks 10.9.3, btw.


texts: How does an iOS device (iPad or iPhone) receive “push” notifications?

texts:
An iOS device (iPad or iPhone) receives notifications, even when the device is sleeping. Apple calls these “push notifications”.

How does the device receive these notifications? Are there any periodic (recurring) actions involved? If so, what actions are they and how often do they occur?


texts: Looking for a way to run a command depending on OS version

texts: I'm trying to create a bash script that runs a command based on OS version that way I can deploy it to machines running 10.12 and 10.13 the only problem is depending on the version the command needs to be slightly different.  How can I go about this?


texts: How can I install the newest EFI firmware upgrade from El Capitan?

texts:
I've got an early 2011 MacBook Pro (8,1) and I am trying to install the newest EFI firmware upgrade, however it only supports 10.8.5 and 10.9.5.

Unfortunately I have no clue as to what the best course of action would be to get this installed. I really need this firmware upgrade, to get access to Apple's Internet Recovery system.

Any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated.


texts:
I would love to send mails in my apple mail scheduled!
What is the most comfortable way to do that?

only method i found: http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html
(but this is quite tricky + buggy)


texts: How to run Xcode 6 on macOS High Sierra(10.13)?

texts:
I downloaded Xcode from Apple Developer website. When I'm trying to open the app, it shows this error.

  You can’t use this version of the application “Xcode” with this version of macOS.

Can we bypass this check?


texts: Cancel Apple Music before period finishes

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I am trying to change my iTunes store region, and to do so requires me to cancel my Apple Music subscription. So I cancelled it, and it says "will expire on 15th January". When I now try and change the region, it still says I need to cancel my subscription.

Can I kill my subscription before the last billed month finishes?


texts:
My MacBook's drive is typically fully functional (for most discs), but I've recently noticed that it refuses to read discs with a paint coat (such as most commercial software). What could have caused my MacBook to experience such an issue? (it didn't happen before).

Details: When inserted, the drive would spin up, seemingly as if nothing was wrong, but after about 15 seconds, it slows down. It repeats this a few times and eventually results in the disc being ejected.


texts: Locating AppleCare UK's New Live Online Chat Support?

texts:
Apparently AppleCare UK has been revamped to include a brand new live online chat support system, where you can chat in a text box with a member of technical support.

How do I locate this ?


texts: How to remove supervision from my iPad imposed by my school that I’m not attending anymore

texts: My iPad is supervised by my school, but I’m not at that school anymore. Does anyone know how to remove the supervision without a factory reset?


texts:
When I opened xcode and tried to make a macosx app, this weird message came up.

Is this a glitch or a virus, as Apple wouldn't say something like this. It does not look like a system message.


texts:
My Mac had a kernel security level of 0. Then, I changed the kernel security level to 1.

Here's how I changed it to 1: sysctl kern.securelevel=1

I'd like to change it back to 0 becuase my hosts file has a system immutable flag on it.

This is the code for that- sudo chflags schg /etc/hosts

I'd like to take away the system immutable flag, and that starts with changing the secure level back to 0.

I've tried to boot into single user mode. I shut down my computer and then held down cmd+S when I rebooted. It shows a black screen and white code scrolling across the screen and then went into the regular user selection field. Then, I put in my password to log in and it showed more white code scrolling across the screen and then it logged me in and everything appears normal.

This is related to this

Protect hosts file


texts: How can I fix the Spotlight index for an encfs-mounted directory?

texts:
Until recently, on OS X 10.8, I was using Alfred (which in turn uses Spotlight) to search files and directories on an encfs-mounted partition (which is mounted off a folder in my Dropbox directory).

I used to use the command sudo mdutil -i on ~/Dropbox-encfs to enable indexing for that partition once it had been mounted (typically, I remounted every time I rebooted).

However, since upgrading to OS X 10.9, entering the same command returns the error Error: unknown indexing state. Indexing and searching on my main root partition continues to work:

~$ sudo mdutil -a -s
/:
    Indexing enabled.
/Users/myuserdirectory/Dropbox-encfs:
    Error: unknown indexing state.

Has something changed in OS X 10.9 that might cause this? How would I go about debugging or fixing this problem?

I'm using encfs version 1.7.4p1. I've already tried turning on and off the indexing (-i on, -i off), and using the -E flag to mdutil to erase the store.

I mount the encfs partition using the following command:

sudo encfs --public -ovolname=Dropbox-encfs ~/Dropbox/.encfs-crypted ~/Dropbox-encfs

Aside from the indexing problem, the mounted encfs partition otherwise seems to work fine.

I should add that I am also seeing warnings of this form in /var/log/system.log:

Dec 23 14:51:20 montpelier.local mds[57]: (Warning) Volume:
vsd:0x7ffe0c826c00 Open failed.  failureCount:7


texts: Will I lose my game saves when I downgrade to iOS 4 from iOS 5?

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I have just recently upgraded from iOS 4.3.5 to iOS 5.1.1 on my 3rd generation iPod touch, but it seems that my iPod is slower and a little unresponsive, so I want to downgrade back to 4.3.5.

I want to know how to backup the data (mainly game saves) so that when I restore to 4.3.5 my game save is still there.


texts: With the announcement of Face ID, I wonder, will work in the dark? For example, a dark room? Does the screen allow enough light for it to work?


texts: Limit hard drive i/o usage by one process (Dropbox)

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I'm using only 5% of 1TB given by Dropbox and it regularly chokes my Mac Mini's HDD by "Downloading file list" too often.

I think it's just a poor performance (it started since the last Dropbox version) but Dropbox support does not understand the problem. So I would like to limit reading and writing by the process.

Is it possible? (OS X 10.9)

UID    PID   PPID CMD              DEVICE  MAJ MIN D   %I/O
0      0        0 kernel_task      ??        1   4 W      0
501  67690    164 Google Chrome    ??        1   4 W      0
501  83207  67690 Google Chrome H  ??        1   4 W      0
501  83194    164 mdworker         ??        1   4 R      0
501  67690    164 Google Chrome    ??        1   4 R      0
501  83207  67690 Google Chrome H  ??        1   4 R      3
501  83071    164 Dropbox109       ??        1   4 R     93


texts: AirPort Express and Extreme Wi-Fi strength comparison

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I'm about to buy an AirPort model but I'm not sure if there is any difference in terms of signal strength and range. There have been comparisons between these two models in the past but I don't think there are any up to date comparisons.

As I'm not going to use the "extra" features, the only thing that matters to me is the range / signal strength of the n signal. (As I don't have any devices supporting the ac signal). Shouldn't there be a significant difference between the two models because of the "more advanced" design of the AirPort Extreme? Like the antennas being placed better or something like that? Thanks!


texts:
Before when I right clicked on a file > info > copy path it would ouput a path like

Applications/MAMP

Now it outputs the path with arrows like

Applications ▸ MAMP

How can I change it? Or is there an easy way to copy a file path without these arrows?


texts: How do I change between open Chrome screens on a macPro 10.13.3 using a windows keyboard

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This is weird. Ctrl + > works sometimes but not always.
When Ctrl + > (> = cursor control keys) works.
When Ctrl + > (> = cursor control keys) doesn't work, it brings up the notification sidebar.  I can't get to my Chrome screen unless I use the mouse to do so. I have changed the notification preferences and it still displays the notification sidebar.
Does anyone know why this happens and how I can fix it?


texts: Photos MacOS: After restoring whole library "Show in moments" are disabled on photos in Shared albums

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I messed up my Photos library (the mumble.photoslibrary folder) and restored it from my Time Machine backup.   Photos rebuilt the database when opened the first time, and everything seem to work properly again.

Unfortunately my shared albums appears to have lost the connection to the originals so I cannot right click on a shared photo and go to the original photo ("Show in moments") in my library any more as the option is greyed out.  I can, however, "Import" it.

This is under High Sierra 10.13.6, and I'm not using iCloud Storage (except Photo Stream due to the automatic import from my iPhone).

Is this a well-known problem, and how do I fix it?


texts: When my MacBook Pro (late-2013, Mavericks) wakes up, it restarts all apps after a few seconds. After a wake up, firstly I see all apps running normal then all apps begin restarting. I think I accidentally changed a preference but I can't find it.


texts: Single AD user cannot login to iMac, but others can

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So, I thought this was the same issue I'd seen before with the old Home folder name conflicting, but it is not. The issue is the the iMac "shakes" and refuses her password at login, but I am 100% certain it is correct AND she can login to her PC without issue (and her AD account is not locked out from password attempts).
The iMac is running OS X El Capitan, 10.11.6. Windows DC is on Server 2008 (SBS 2008 to be exact).

The BIND from the Mac to our Active Directory (Windows) Domain seems fine since I can login as my AD user, but the owner of the Mac cannot login as herself, presumably because of something left over...? She is using a local account for now, but her Mapped Drives drop overnight, so we need to get her back to her AD account. So far I have tried:

Unbind/rebind the Mac to the domain
Checked to ensure all AD users can login to the Mac in System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Options
Renamed her old local account AND the home folder and changed path
Disable "Force local home directory on startup disk" under Directory Utility > User Experience
Disable "Use UNC path from Active Directory to derive network home location" (also under Directory Utility > User Experience)

I can't find anything in the Keychain, but I don't know where else to look. What could be the issue here? Thank you.


texts: How can I disable missed call notifications on iOS 12?

texts: If I miss a call where no message is left, I don't want to know about it. How can I disable notifications for missed calls without disabling notifications for voicemail messages?


texts: Is there any way to embed files in Keynote presentation? So, that others can click on it and download/open it in their machines.


texts: Is it possible to activate whichever mail client is connected by default to a mailto link in applescript?

texts:
So I have an apple script that sends an email via the mail app. I didn't make it myself though.

tell application "Mail"
    set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:mailSubject, visible:true}
    tell newMessage
        set content to mailContent
        set visible to true
    end tell
    activate
end tell

Now I would like to change the script to, instead of opening the Mail app directly, just open a mailto: link with whatever client is configured for that.

Is that possible?


texts: Why does MacBook connect to AirPort Express but has no internet connection, while iMac works just fine?

texts:
My 2007 MacBook (10.6.8) worked perfectly fine with my AirPort Express, until I added a 2010 iMac (10.8.4) to the network.

When I first setup the iMac it connected to the AirPort Express, but not to the internet. The AirPort menubar icon showed an exclamation mark on it. At some point in or after the setup I was prompted to set up my AirPort Express, which had already been configured and working just fine with my MacBook.

I followed the instructions and the AirPort Express restarted. It worked! My iMac was/is now online. However, when I went back to the MacBook it was now showing the same exclamation mark on the AirPort menubar icon that the iMac had initially showed.

I have tried restarting the MacBook, the AirPort Express, and the iMac. I've disabled and enabled the AirPort on the MacBook. After each attempt the MacBook connects to the network and a few seconds later shows the exclamation mark when it fails to receive an IP address.

Wanting to dig into the router settings I opened up AirPort Utility on the iMac but got an error message: "This version of AirPort Utility doesn't support this base station."

Is the problem a compatibility issue between 10.6.8 and 10.8.4? Or 10.8.4 and the older AirPort Express? I'm confused by this since the MacBook did work perfectly fine before, when the iMac did not, and now that the iMac does, the MacBook does not.

Does anyone know what is going on!?


texts: Some MBP keys won't work after logging in

texts: I have a 13 inch mid 2012 MBP, I'm having problems with some of my keys, some of my keys don't work such as u I O j k L m, but the wierd thing is that they work perfectly fine during the login screen, but don't work after logging in


texts: How to reset Apple ID password without email access

texts: I received my wife's old iPhone and created an Apple account in my name. When I go to settings her name pops up. I hit that and it wants her password, however she doesn't remember.  She no longer has the email she signed up under so I can't have an email sent to the account.  Is there a way to change the name and account?


texts: How is continuous play with song cues in mixtapes handled in iTunes?

texts:
The question relates to something similar to cue sheets in iTunes that from my understanding is not available. However if I were to buy a continuous play DJ mix from the iTunes store it must be handled in some other way, right?

I don't own any purchased DJ mixes from the iTunes store so I can not check this but I have a few that I have gotten from other places and it would be nice to add in song information and track cues in the mix time line. Does anyone know how Apple handles this in iTunes?

I guess that it would also apply to podcasts and such. :)


texts: Multiboot usb stick with Mountain Lion, Windows 7, lInux, Freebsd

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Looking for way how to carry always an USB stick (16GB) what allow me live rescue boot for different OSes. Is possible manage multiboot USB stick with 3 or 4 operating systems:

Windows 7
Mountain Lion
Linux
Freebsd

Here is probably no problem for the latter 3, but OS X need GUID(?) and therefore here are(?) probably some problems.

Some pointers would be great. Prefering creating the stick on ML/OS-X from original ISO images (Win7, Xubuntu, Freebsd 9.0) and if it is needed for something using VirtualBox.

Ps: If Win7 causes problems, can miss it - so enough to have OSX/Linux/Freebsd


texts: How can I use an external hard drive as a secondary internal hard drive on OS X

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So I have a 2011 iMac that has a 500 GB. Hard drive inside. I could not buy a new computer but I bought a 2 TB. external hard drive that I connected using firewire, since it is almost as fast as firewire.

What I wanted to do is to have it act as an internal hard drive, automatically storing any new downloads to it. I thought I could do this because an iMac has two different SATA ports, but only one is occupied by the 500 GB. hard drive. Is there any way I can root the hard drive from the firewire port to make it act as if it was internal, an/or connected to the second SATA port?


texts:
When I sync my iPhone 4S to my PC, I'm able to transfer pictures to my PC drive to make more room on my iPhone.

Why can't I transfer user made videos to my PC? The user made videos take up more space than my pictures and so I would like to free up some space for other save data.

Is it possible to transfer user made videos to a PC? If so, how?


texts: Is there any keyboard shortcut to send an email in iOS 9.2?

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I have an iPad mini with iOS 9.2 and a physical keyboard. The keyboard allows me to use several shortcuts when using some apps (for instance I can use Cmd+T to open a new tab in Safari or close it with Cmd+W).

I was wondering if there is any shorcut to send an email from the default app using a keyboard.


texts: How can I make an app keyboard shortcut override the global default?

texts:
For instance, Ctrl-Space is a commonly accepted "code completion" shortcut in several IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA etc.), however on the system level it is "change input source (language)" shortcut. I don't need other languages while in IDEA, so can I have Ctrl-Space trigger code completion in IDEA without changing the global default?

PS: I know about How can I set up a keyboard shortcut for switching input source? but the solution there is to change the global default (which I don't want to do).


texts:
I know that we can easily use time machine. However, i wonder if there exist any other way to backup the data on my macbook? Since I do a lot of modification to the system and sometimes make it has kernel panic, I would need the backup program to be able to restore everything from a bootable cd (the backup file can be on the hard disk).

So, if your solution offers a bootable backup, that's great, but I'm more interested in equivalent functionality of Time Machine where multiple snapshots are available.


texts: Windows won't maximize on multiple monitor setup

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I have two external monitors connected to my macbook and the dock is on the very leftmost monitor.  The non-dock monitor seems to think it has the dock because it will not allow me to expand windows into the area where the dock would be.

Additionally the monitor with the dock will expand windows fully right behind the dock.

I have tried moving the dock to this monitor and then away from it and disconnecting and reconnecting the monitor altogether but I have not restarted yet as I would prefer to solve this problem without a reboot if possible.  Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?

I am running macOS Catalina 10.15.3 on a 2016 macbook pro


texts: How to set up Time Capsule in wireless bridge mode?

texts:
I can't find any clear, step-by-step instructions on how to set up a Time Capsule in wireless bridge mode.  Eg, how to disable its routing functions and set it up as a switch/repeater connected wirelessly (not via ethernet cable) to another wireless network.  I'd also like to be able to connect a backup harddrive to it via USB and have access to it on the wireless network.  Anyone know exactly how to do this?

In AirPort Utility I change the default setting from Router to Bridge Mode, but then it's not clear how to specify the existing network I want it to connect with and extend.  Do I use "Create New Network", or "Add to Existing Network"?  And how?  Honestly I've tried multiple variants of both and neither seems to work right.

"Add to Existing Network" seems to make my Time Capsule completely vanish and and AirPort Utility can't find it.  "Create a New Network" at least doesn't do that, but I can't tell whether I've successfully extended my other network with my TimeCapsule or not, and the USB harddrive is not available (nor TC's own internal 3TB harddrive for that matter).  For example, there's this comment on Amazon saying you should use "Create a New Network" instead of "Add to Existing Network".

Anyway, any suggestions, or links to a good guide on this, much appreciated.


texts:
My computer will randomly start repeating keys. At first it was the ≥ key, which led me to believe it was more than just a stuck key since that is an option-key character and the chances that they would stick at the same time was slim.

It has now started doing it with the / key. It happens randomly and starts and stops randomly as well. Restarting it isn't a surefire solution, although restarting, resetting the SMC and zapping the PRAM usually fixes it. I have tried reinstalling Mountain Lion.

What else should/is there to do to try to fix this problem?


texts: Remove unwanted email address associated with Apple ID

texts:
I noticed that I have an unwanted email address in the following panel:

System Preferences → iCloud → Account Details → Contact

What does that mean and how can I remove it?

Update:

I have tried to log on Apple ID settings but it doesn't work:

There is NO x besides that email but a ? saying:

  This is an alias of your Apple ID email address.

Updated 2:
It seems there is no way to remove it:


texts: How to check if a USB hub supports USB 3.0?

texts: I recently bought a USB type-C hub for my MacBook Pro. I found the data transfer speeds to be quite low (from my USB 3.0 external hard disk). I suspect that the USB hub doesn't support USB 3.0 data transfer speeds. How can I confirm this?


texts: Disk encryption format for external drives that works on both macos and linux

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Is there any disk encryption scheme or format that can be used on both macos and linux?

Linux cannot read Apple's drive encryption format, and LUKS is not supported on MacOS.

I tried using VeraCrypt encrypted partitions in exFat format and it mounted successfully several times on MacOS but after a system update exFat mounting of veracrypt volumes does not work anymore (no issues on linux). Also, exFat does not seem to be a reliable file system, so I searched for alternatives, but apart from fat32, exFat and ntfs I don't see any viable alternatives for a reliable cross-platform file system.

All of these formats have issues: fat32 has file size limits, exfat veracrypt partitions are not mountable on macos, and ntfs is proprietary, linux support is not reliable, and veracrypt does not support it on linux/mac. hfsplus works fine on mac but is read-only on linux. I hoped to be able to use ext3/ext4 with veracrypt encryption but even though I have fuse with ext4fuse working in read-only mode working for unencrypted drives veracrypt is apparently not able to interoperate with fuse drivers.

Fat32 would be a great option since it works well with veracrypt on any OS, but the file size limitation and lack of symlinks is simply not acceptable.

Any other options I might have missed?


texts: if iPhoto came with my Mac, can I still get free updates after Mountain Lion?

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Since:

I got iPhoto included with my MacBook Pro, not from the Mac App Store
Mountain Lion is replacing Software Update with the Mac App Store

Will I still be able to get free iPhoto updates with Mountain Lion?  How would that work?


texts: OSX Launch Daemon for Periodic Screenshots

texts:
I'm trying to figure out how to create a daemon that will take screenshots every 5 minutes on OSX.

The daemon with launchctl seems to run under a separate session so the screenshots I'm getting right now are just of my blank home screen rather than my actual current session screen.

Currently I have a screencapture script:

#!/bin/bash

screencapture ~/Desktop/$(date +%y%m%d%H%M%S).png

And a plist file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
        <dict>
                <key>Label</key>
                <string>com.startup</string>
                <key>Program</key>
                <string>path_to_script/screenshots.sh</string>
                <key>StartInterval</key>
                <integer>15</integer>
        </dict>
</plist>


texts: Can a projector be used as a good quality second screen?

texts:
I've never attached a projector to my Mac, so I don't know just how good the really good ones can be. I'm a graphic designer who used to use a 27 inch iMac but now works on a laptop most of the time. I'd occasionally like to see my screen at a larger size with enough detail to be pleasant to use—no need for extreme HD. How would a good projector go at mirroring my laptop screen onto a flat surface? I'm wondering if there's a reason that projectors aren't touted as an alternative to a secondary screen...this concept doesn't appear anywhere I've looked online. If someone is doing this I would like to know specific projector models that you are happy with to create a secondary display for your Mac.
How bright would it need to be to show up in the daytime? I'm interested to know people's experiences with the number of lumens needed for having a really clear daytime picture. I've researched this but am still unsure.
I'm aware that it may possibly be cheaper to buy a secondary screen, but the portability of a projector would be a big plus if the display quality was good enough (accurate colour, good resolution).
Also, will the projector echo the exact screen colour of my laptop? So if nightshift is on, will the projected image show that yellowing or will it be bright white?


texts: YouTube videos won't play in Safari (iPod Gen 3 / iOS 5.1.1)

texts:
When I try to play a YouTube video I just see the following message:

  This operation could not be completed.

I've tried restarting my internet, resetting my iPod, HARD Resetting my iPod, and deleting some apps.

My iPod has 28 GB of memory left, so I know I'm not running out of memory. It's really frustrating to think that Apple might have disabled video playing in safari for iOS 5.1! Please help me, I cannot stand another day without my YouTube!

Device: iPod touch 3rd Gen, 2009 (iPod3,1)

OS: iOS 5.1.1


texts: How to share directory over NFS from Mac? (w/o macOS Server app)

texts:
First of all, I'm happy to pay the $19.99 for the Mac OS Server app from the app store, so that's no problem, it's just that at the moment I only have one specific need - NFS sharing between my macOS sierra host and a virtualbox VM guest running Debian Sarge (don't ask).

This is something I am used to doing in Linux without any difficulty, but the syntax for /etc/exports doesn't seem to be the same? In the man page for exports on macOS it uses explicit flags?

My regular line in /etc/exports on Linux:

# NFS Share to Virtualbox guests:
/path/to/my/shared/directory 192.168.56.0/24(rw,fsid=root,all_squash,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000,no_subtree_check)

Calling nfsd checkexports returns the following:

getaddrinfo() failed for 192.168.56.0/24(rw,fsid=root,all_squash,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000,no_subtree_check)
exports:2: couldn't get address for host: 192.168.56.0/24(rw,fsid=root,all_squash,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000,no_subtree_check)
exports:2: no valid hosts found for export

And if I simplify and change the etc/exports entry to /path/to/my/shared/directory -network 192.168.56.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 I get the following output from nfsd checkexports:

exports:2: path contains non-directory or non-existent components: /path/to/my/shared/directory
exports:2: no usable directories in export entry and no fallback

Note: /path/to/my/shared/directory is obviously a just a placeholder filepath for this question, not my actual entry in /etc/exports

Is it just because the line in /etc/exports is crap, or I need some other configuration? or do I need the macOS Server app?

From looking at https://help.apple.com/serverapp/mac/5.3/#/apd106E5632-C4E6-4572-8289-B9ACC652E88C it seems like it might not be anything I need the macOS Server app for?

EDIT:

What I want is the equivalent behaviour and rw permissions of rw,fsid=root,all_squash,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000,no_subtree_check in my exporting, I've got it working with NFS Manager where I can mount the folder on my VM guest but read-only.


texts: Explicit Command to Import Keychain from iCloud account?

texts:
A new Mac is outfitted with an AppleID:

Is there an explicit command or push-button that will pull the keychain from iCloud?  For some reason, Catalina is not automatically pulling the Keychain from iCloud?  or maybe it has and there is something else I must do?


texts:
Well, the title pretty much speaks for itself. I would like to stream my Mac's music to my PC over Bluetooth.
It appears this isn't supported by default (or at least my devices are reporting it's not).

Is there some way to do this? Does it require an extra application perhaps? There are a lot of solutions to do so over wifi but i would prefer bluetooth...


texts: How to mark some columns as ignored for calculations Numbers?

texts:
I'm creating a template on Numbers and I would like to know if there is a way for the formula to ignore, or skip over some cells or even entire columns. I need these columns for some calculations, but need them to be overlooked for others. The catch being, which column will have to be skipped over will be different every time.

Maybe there is a way to "mark" a column to be ignored, with the help of a checkbox, perhaps?

Or is there an even easier, more obvious way that has eluded me?


texts:
Strange, when I'm leaving my Retina Macbook Pro alone, and it starts going to sleep (despite my setting it to not sleep), it tries to close all the apps that I have open.

Why would it do this and is it possible to fix it?


texts: How can I hyper customize the MacBookPro Touch Bar?

texts:
I want my Touch Bar to have:

Esc

F1-F12

Toggle Mute

Volume Slider

Screen-Brightness Slider

I don't care if the buttons have to be squished to achieve this. I know you can do some customization through System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard, but it doesn't give you much fine control. Is there another interface or maybe even a config file one can use to hyper customize the Touch Bar?


texts: Latronix KVM stopped working after last java update

texts:
I see this error when open jnlp file via javaws manually:
java.lang.AssertionError: Threading violation: not AppKit thread

Is there anything I can do with it?


texts: iCloud drive for desktop, documents, and downloads folder and dropbox in its own folder

texts: Can I use iCloud drive for desktop, documents, and downloads folder and then use dropbox in its own folder? Their files won't intersect but wondering if this is a bad idea.


texts: my ipod classic 160gb is not recognised in my computer when connected but is still charging

texts: My Ipod Classic 160gb is not being recognised in my computer or itunes when connected but is still charging. Is there anything I can do to fix this?


texts: What is the difference between "activate" and "launch"?

texts:
Here is an example of Applescript code:

do shell script "osascript -e 'tell application \"Safari\" to activate'"

do shell script "osascript -e 'tell application \"Safari\" to launch'"

Is there any difference in the behavior of these two commands?

Because, to my eyes, it appears that they accomplish exactly the same effect.


texts: Ideas for reinstalling Mac OS X on a 2009 Macbook Pro whose shift key is constantly stuck down?

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro 13 inch from 2009 on which I spilt gin a few months ago. As a result the shift key is constantly stuck down.

Initially, the problem was that I couldn't start the machine up, as it automatically went into safe mode, due to it booting with shift stuck down. I could get around this by holding the CMD button and tricking it. When it's started up, I disable the keyboard via command line and use a bluetooth keyboard from there.
Now I want to reinstall Mac OSX on it, but I can't do anything on boot; it won't boot into device selection screen or boot from CD.

Has anyone got a crafty plan on how I could go about getting OSX reinstalled on this machine? I have a 2011 Macbook Pro at my disposal also to help the case.

I was thinking doing a network install, but I still think that needs me to get the broken macbook into the device screen via holding a button right. Is it that correct?


texts:
Is there a way to transfer old iphone text messages to a macbook?

iPhone 7 Version 12.0.1

Mac OS 10.13.6


texts: How to disable vertical scrolling while horizontal scrolling is in progress using the trackpad on a Macbook?

texts:
Macbook trackpad allows both vertical and horizontal scrolling. But when I try to do horizontal scrolling, some vertical scrolling also taking place unintentionally (may be my finger movements are no so precious) which annoys me.

Is there a way to disable vertical scrolling while horizontal scrolling is in progress? If there is no built in way in macOS to do this, are there any third party extensions to do this job?


texts:
Hello I am trying to run an applescript that will launch VLC media player and play all the files in a folder whenever a new file is added. It seemed to work fine initially then I restarted my computer and not it wont run. I am running the script as a folder Action. please see attached script. What am I missing?

on adding folder items to theAttachedFolder after receiving theNewItems
-- Get the name of the attached folder

-- Get List of files in folder
    set the_files to get every file of theAttachedFolder

-- open vlc using files in folder which should result in a vlc playlist
of all files in folder

    tell application "Finder" to open {the_files} using application
    file "VLC.app"

end adding folder items to

Any help will be greatly appreciated, I'm pretty new to this.
Thank you.


texts: Specify the resource a virtual machine has

texts:
I am using a Mac having this:

I have installed VMware Fusion, in one virtual machine Ubuntu has been installed with this ressource:

And here is what is displayed in System Monitor of Ubuntu:

I need to do some experiments under Ubuntu... I am not sure how to specify well the resource used. May I say "The experiments are run under a virtual machine configured to use 2 processor cores among 8 processor cores and 3GB RAM on a PC of 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 and 8GB RAM? Is there a correct and compact way to express this?


texts: Customise Mac Terminal command: Control+w

texts:
I am trying to find a way to customise Mac Terminal command:Control+w which can also consider delimiters like =, -. Currently Space is only way it considers. For example for the command

$foo --option=foos

If I use Control+w, it deletes --option=foos but I want it to delete firstly till =, then next delimiter identified, if I pass command once more


texts: What/where is the multitasking screen on an iPhone

texts:
In here https://whatsappen.com/news/5465/many-complaints-whatsapp-notifications-ios-11-update-solution

It states:

  This behavior is fairly common among users because of the
  misconception that apps that appear in the multitasking screen are
  running in the background.

I know there is a multitasking screen on an iPad, however WhatsApp is not released for an iPad, it is intended for iPhone. So what do they mean by the multitasking screen on an iPhone?

It cannot be the list of running apps displayed by double clicking the home button because apps displayed there are in the background, though they may not necessarily be running.
Is this however they are actually referring to?


texts: AppleScript without showing what program it opened and edited

texts: I wrote an AppleScript that goes into System Preferences and clicks on some of the buttons. I does that by literally opening System Preferences and clicking UI Elements. I'm wondering, is it possible to not show what programs AppleScript opened and what it clicked and only show the result, (in my case it changes screen resolution)? That would result in faster script execution.


texts:
I have scheduled some jobs in crontab which are to be run one by one, at some specific time. My script for crontab is :

15 10 * * * /Users/sri/files/BatchFF.sh
45 11 * * * /Users/sri/files/BatchGC.sh
15 13 * * * /Users/sri/files/Batch_GUI_FF.sh
45 14 * * * /Users/sri/files/Batch_GUI_GC.sh
15 16 * * * /Users/sri/files/Batch_Sim_FF.sh
45 17 * * * /Users/sri/files/Batch_Sim_GC.sh

These scripts ideally should start at 10:15, 11:45, 13:15, 14:45, and so on.
But the scripts are not starting as expected, rather they start at 10:15, 10:15, 10:16, 10:16, 10:17, 10:17.
These scripts are writing some log files also.
I am running it in Apple McBook Air, with OS X 12.4.0 Darwin


texts: What part of the MacBook Pro 13-inch 2.4 GHZ (Mid 2010) logic board is what sensor?

texts:
My MacBook Pro 13-inch 2.4 GHZ (Mid 2010) starts up normally but after approximately one minute the fan accelerates and the system slows down dramatically. The CPU load goes up to 99% as I see it on Activity Monitor. The laptop is running without battery as it suffered a water spill some months ago. There is no virus and no other process is using large amounts of memory.

The problem was thought to be linked to a DC-in board that I replaced after the water damage. The DC-in board was working fine and the input voltage is approximately 16v as seen on a voltimeter. Apple Hardware Test gives me this code: 4SNS/1/1C0000008:TN1D--124

How can I check what part of the logic board is what sensor?
If there is a faulty temperature sensor on the logic board how can I find it and replace it using the above code?


texts: New iTunes gives error: iTunes cannot verify the identity of the server "safebrowsing.clients.google.com"

texts:
I can browse to https://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/ but it just redirects me to Google's home page.

iTunes 12.5.5.5, Windows 8.1


texts: how can you draw inside a shape in preview app?

texts: If try to draw anything inside a shape it gets selected instead, the cursor turns into hand from pen. So basically how can you draw shape on/inside another shape?


texts:
I am using iMovie for recording audio during a Lecture (I nees to see video during recording) with a M-Audio M-Track interface (two XLR microphone).

The thing is that I can only record first microhone, because I can-t select the interface BUS on iMovie (or I didn't see it).

I also tested record with a XENYX UFX1204 (12 inputs), but I can only record from first input to.

Can anybody please help me?

Grateful

MacBook, iOS 9.2.1


texts: MacOS keyboard shortcut moving window to other monitor

texts:
What's the MacOS equivalent to Windows' keyboard shortcut to move individual windows to other monitors? Let's assume a dual monitor setup.

The specific Windows keyboard shortcuts I'm hoping to find equivalents to are the following...

Move Window to Left Monitor
+←
Move Window to Right Monitor
+→
Maximize Window
+↑
Minimize Window
+↓


texts: I have a new pc and just re-downloaded iTunes. When I tried syncing, the iTunes Library would not update from my iPad Library! instead it tries to replace the iPad library with just the few songs I bought online, which are in iCloud. But I have several old songs I burnt from CDs. Please how do i update the iTunes library with my iPad library?


texts: iPhone: How to sync large library of MP3 + flac files from Win10 laptop

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I am a longtime android user looking to migrate to iphone (to get better privacy).
I think I have everything solved except for one thing: My music library.
I am old school, in that I have a large (120+GB, constantly growing) library of music files. This is primarily maintained on my Win10 laptop (and backed up to the cloud).
With Android, I just plug the phone into a usb port, and do a file copy from the laptop to the phone.
On the phone, I use BlackPlayerEX to manage playlists and be the playback app.
On iPhone 11/12, how do I:

Sync my music library to the phone

Have a blackplayer equivalent on iphone (VLC for iPhone?)


texts: Navigating back after following link in iBooks

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I was reading a book in iBooks and clicked on a link in the text which took me to the index at the end of the book. Is there any way I can get back to where I was reading before I tapped on the link (without manually flipping through the pages/table of contents)?  There's no obvious back button that I can see.

I'm using iBooks 1.5, which I believe is currently the latest version.


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I am currently running OS X 10.9.1 and would like to create contacts that are stored locally on my MacBook Pro. My Contacts app does not have "On My Mac" as an option in the sidebar; only the contacts I have synced with my work's Exchange. Additionally, there is no discernible way to make the "On My Mac" account the default. I attempted to go to "Contacts > Preferences > General" but there is no option to choose the default account. However, if I add my GMail account then I can set the default but "On My Mac" is not an option.

All I want to do is create a contact that is stored only on my local machine and not synced with any cloud based service.

How do I enable the "On My Mac" contact group on OS X Mavericks?


texts: How can I quickly type special characters on an iPhone/iPad using a bluetooth keyboard?

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I have an iPhone with a Bluetooth Logitech keyboard that also works with iPads. The solution works great for me in meetings etc. because it is a lightweight solution. The problem I face (and I am really there is no solution for it) is that I need special characters all the time.

I write text in Portuguese. In a Windows keyboard (I am a new iPhone user coming from the Windows platform) I can quickly type a character like ' followed by an a and get á. Or ` with an a to get à. Is it possible to quickly type letters with accents in an external iPhone/iPad keyboard and get accents to display quickly and easily?

The only methods and recommendations I have found so far are the ones like this. Is there a quicker/better/handier solution with an external keyboard? Thank you.


texts: error "The variable var is not defined." number -2753 from "var" in a method

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I'm trying to write a method that waits for an element on a webpage to appear before continuing, this code works when not placed in a method but I cannot appear to place it in one without getting the error above

on waitForId(idText)
set var to false
set idText to "\"" & idText & "\""
repeat until var is true
    tell application "Safari"
        set var to (do JavaScript "document.contains(document.getElementById(idText));") in current tab of first window
    end tell
    delay 0.2
end repeat
return true
end waitForId

tell application "Safari"
global var
set var to false
if not (exists document 1) then reopen
tell current tab of window 1 to set URL to "https://www.google.com/?client=safari#channel=mac_bm"
tell current tab to activate
log "starting wait"
my waitForId("hplogo")

log "done waiting"
end tell

The "hplogo" is a google sign for testing. When run:

error "The variable var is not defined." number -2753 from "var"


texts:
I have a Macbook Pro, model A1502.  While watching videos, the screen just cut to black.  Now it won't do anything on boot - the MacBook screen just comes up black.  I've tried zapping the PRAM, (ahem, NVRAM), an SMC reset, nada.  It seems that the backlight is working - it's "LCD black" black, meaning it's not truly dark it looks like the backlight is working.

Safe boot, boot to recovery, verbose safe boot, nothing happens.

I have an external monitor.  On the external, it shows the apple boot screen, the progress bar gets to about 40% across, then even the external monitor goes black.

My guess is, hardware issue, Genius Bar time?  I hope not... don't feel like buying a new board.

EDIT: it needed an SMC reset. I didn't do it properly, and it did work, eventually.

EDIT2: 1) you don't want a full battery for an SMC reset. I always had it charging. I unplugged from power and plugged in some spinning-rust hard drives to sap power. This helped. 2) I found mirror mode. Command F1 mirrors the main login screen to the external monitor. I can then login do a backup and wipe the drives


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I am trying to force to quit Safari but that doesn't work.

What is happening?

When looking at the Dock, the icon Safari is not accompany by a dot (meaning that the application is closed). However, on the Force Quit Application window Safari is visible. I can select it and press Force Quit but nothing happen. I can also make a secondary click on the icon on the Dock and click on Force Quit but again nothing happens. Under Activity Monitor there is no process that contain the word Safari and there is no process that are particularly demanding neither in terms of CPU nor in terms of RAM. When I try to restart my computer, I get a message saying that the computer cannot restart because I have to quit Safari first. When I try to open Safari (via the Dock or via the Applications folder), nothing happens.

How did this situation come to existence?

I already had a few troubles with Safari in the past months. New tabs and windows sometimes load forever and Safari is sometimes very slow. I went camping for a few days and I let my computer under sleep with the Safari, Sublime Text 2 and Preview open. I just came back from camping, I opened my computer and Safari was very very slow. I wanted to quit, I had to force to quit. I thought it worked out well at first place and I then realized that Safari is not "completely closed".

Extra info

My (almost 5 years old) MacBook Pro runs on OS X Yosemite 10.10.3

After @slick's answer the version of Safari:

$cat /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/version.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>BuildVersion</key>
    <string>1</string>
    <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
    <string>8.0.5</string>
    <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
    <string>10600.5.17</string>
    <key>ProjectName</key>
    <string>WebBrowser</string>
    <key>SourceVersion</key>
    <string>7600005017000000</string>
</dict>
</plist>

The only plug-in I have is AdBlock.

Question

What is happening? How can I solve this issue?


texts: How long does a contact show as "Recent"?

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If I send an e-mail to a contact, how long will it show as "recent"?

I wonder because when I look at one of my contacts, it has an option at the bottom of the screen that says "Remove from Recents", but I don't recall having contacted this person in over a month. This is an iPhone 6 and I also use an iPad.


texts: Is it possible to run OpenZFS on MacOS Sierra on a Mac Pro

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I have a Mac Pro with a PCIe flash startup drive running MacOS Sierra. I would like to fill the 4 empty SATA HDD bays with drives and use OpenZFS to create a pool/volume.

Is this configuration possible?
What risks/issues might I face with this setup? For example, how might macOS updates affect accessing my ZFS data pool?

I'm open to using MacOS Sierra's RAID tools, but I prefer to use the ZFS file system for this due to its superior data protection and compression features.


texts: What happens if I delete an icloud backup?

texts: Ok so, I currently have filled up 2 tb of icloud storage. If I delete an iphone’s backup from icloud, will that also delete all the data that is stored in icloud for that iphone? What I mean by this is, all of the old data that may not be on my iphone now will be gone? Or is a backup just a copy of the data on the iphone? If I delete the backup from icloud to make more space for a new backup will I still have all my data on my iphone?


texts: The macOS Mojave installer is not responding on my mid-2013 MacBook Air

texts:
I don't  know why this is happening but 4 days ago due to some storage issue I completely cleaned my MacOS Mojave installed MacBook Air Mid 2013 and after clean up it came up with MacOS Mountain Lion:

My Specs:

Now I want to upgrade it to MacOS Mojave again, so I downloaded the Install macOS Mojave Installer:

But in the end it does not work as it's meant to. When I try to launch it it shows Not Responding all the time:

Has anyone else in this beautiful world faced this issue? Can someone suggest a solution?


texts: How do I save the Numbers document I'm working on?

texts: Using Numbers 3.6.2, and would like to save document to finish later. Where do I save it? (Saving to PDF is permanent)


texts: Connected phone to mac using usb0, but IP address attached to the device is linked to my mac

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I have a Nokia N900 that's running Maemo (based on Debian Lenny).

I am connecting it to my Mac using USB. On the Nokia I run ifup usb0. In /etc/network/interfaces I have:

iface usb0 inet static
address 192.168.2.18
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.2.17

I connect it to my computer using USB and I get the following:

But, when I run nmap on the IP address 192.168.2.17 from my mac with the -sV option it's displaying: 22/tcp open  ssh     OpenSSH 6.9 (protocol 2.0)

... This isn't the version of OpenSSH that's running on the phone. The version on the phone is 5.1. This is the same version that's running on my mac.

Some how that IP is linked to my mac.

If I use the IP address 192.168.2.18 I get a warning saying the IP address is already used on the network. I've tried changing the IP on the phone in the interfaces file, but it does the same thing each time.

Any ideas what's going on?

netstat -nr from the mac (excluding ipv6):

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
default            192.168.1.1        UGSc          632        7     en1
127                127.0.0.1          UCS             1        0     lo0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH              3     5737     lo0
169.254            link#6             UCS             1        0     en1
192.168.1          link#6             UCS             1        0     en1
192.168.1.1/32     link#6             UCS            12        0     en1
192.168.1.1        74:a5:28:f0:f8:9d  UHLWIir       125      258     en1   1186
192.168.1.5/32     link#6             UCS             2        0     en1
192.168.1.5        28:f0:76:4:db:80   UHLWIi          1       16     lo0
224.0.0            link#6             UmCS            2        0     en1
224.0.0.251        1:0:5e:0:0:fb      UHmLWI          1        0     en1
255.255.255.255/32 link#6             UCS             1        0     en1


texts: OS X: Is there a built-in scheduler program?

texts:
I would like to schedule a task to execute with parameters at a specific time/date in the future.

Does OS X include any such tool (even if it's command-line)? If not, are there any free or relatively cheap tools out there to accomplish this?


texts: Why is "recently added" playlist under iCloud control empty on iPhone?

texts: The playlist "recently added" is a smart playlist (created by iTunes) and lists quite some songs in iTunes on the Mac. The library is kept in the iCloud by iTunes match, so the songs and the playlists are synced automatically to the iPhone. But "recently added" always is empty on the iPhone (unlike most other playlists).


texts: Why can’t I redownload Minecraft when I deleted it

texts: I paid for Minecraft on the App Store. I accidentally deleted it and now I can’t get it back. I signed into all 3 of my accounts but it always says minecraft costs money. How do I fix this?


texts: Does closing the lid put a MacBook Pro to sleep? Would it hurt the computer if I carry it around without shutting it down?

texts:
When I first got my MacBook Pro, it took less than 30 seconds to start up. Now, after several months, it takes about two minutes to startup and I can tell that it is not as responsive when using some applications (it was fast before).

I am wondering if it is because I'm not shutting it down that causes the lag during startup.


texts: Is there any way to convert my IMessage .ichat files into text files

texts: I have tried everything and just for reference my school has blocked the use of IMessage so I have no way of just using that to look and open my messages


texts: Somehow MySQL cannot be accessed via command line, but no problem with DBeaver

texts:
I have MySQL (v8.0.23) and DBeaver (v7.3.4) installed via Homebrew.
Here's how I start mysql:
$ mysql.server start

For unknown reasons, sometimes MySQL works fine, sometimes it doesn't and spit this error message:

. ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file
(/usr/local/var/mysql/Ancalagon.local.pid).

OK, let's delete *.pid and *.err files on /usr/local/var/mysql, and restart MySQL. Now it gives me different error message:

$ mysql.server start Starting MySQL
./usr/local/Cellar/mysql/8.0.23/bin/mysqld_safe: line 144:
/usr/local/var/mysql/Ancalagon.err: Permission denied
/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/8.0.23/bin/mysqld_safe: line 144:
/usr/local/var/mysql/Ancalagon.err: Permission denied
/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/8.0.23/bin/mysqld_safe: line 199:
/usr/local/var/mysql/Ancalagon.err: Permission denied
/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/8.0.23/bin/mysqld_safe: line 144:
/usr/local/var/mysql/Ancalagon.err: Permission denied  ERROR! The
server quit without updating PID file
(/usr/local/var/mysql/Ancalagon.pid).

My quick solution is chown -R anta40 /usr/local/var/mysql/. Usually it works, until MySQL fails at some unprerdictable point (let's say after a few times restarting the laptop).

mysql -u root -h localhost -p
Enter password:  ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user
'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

The strange thing is MySQL can be accessed normally with DBeaver (I'm very sure the password is correct both on terminal and DBeaver). So my questions is:
How to fix this MySQL permission issue, so it can be accessed via terminal?


texts:
Big Sur won't take my user entry into sudoers for some reason.  I've used both sudo visudo and nano and the entry remains.  Here's the entry:
phil            ALL = (ALL) ALL

I test it with sudo echo alpha and it asks me for my password.
Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? I can't live this way.


texts: Can't delete Exchange account from Mail or Internet Accounts preferences

texts:
The Yosemite upgrade completely hosed Mail—it just won't talk to the Exchange server anymore.

"No problem," I think, "I'll just delete the account and start over as it's all on the server."

If I try and delete the account from Mail.app's preferences, it says "The Mail account “foo@bar.com” is shared by other applications on this Mac. You can remove this account in Internet Accounts."

Ok, so I click on Internet Accounts, it opens Preferences, and the Exchange account isn't there.

(Interestingly enough, I get the exact same problem when I try and remove the account via Contacts and Calendar's preferences—even when "Enable this account" is unchecked in all three.)

So how do I force Yosemite to delete all traces of an Exchange account?


texts: I bought 200GB of ICloud Storage, iCloud Settings shows 200GB, but the iCloud Storage tab says I have 4GB

texts: When I try to backup my Iphone it will take more than two hours and still not be halfway completed. My phone is only 32Gb with 6GB of free space. What's the problem with my IPhone?


texts: Can I mark an email as read on the Apple Watch?

texts:
After I receive an email, I can preview it easily from the notification. If it's just an email I don't need to react, my workflow is to just leave it there as read. However, I can't seem to figure out how to mark an email as read on the Apple Watch, so now I have to dismiss the notification, take out my phone, force touch the email and mark as read.

The option on the bottom of the notification are ’Reply’, ‘Flag’, ‘Delete’, ‘Mark as unread’ and ‘Dismiss’. What is the difference between ‘Mark as unread’ and ‘Dismiss’, since both leave the message as unread. Shouldn't ‘Mark as unread’ be ‘Mark as read’ instead?


texts: Access to many websites under OS X Server on port 80

texts:
I've installed two web applications (Jenkins and Redmine) on my OS X Mavericks Server. Both are available in local network from other computers as:

myserver.local:8080 (Jenkins)
myserver.local:8081/redmine (Redmine installed from Bitnami)

Also I redirect to domains to my public IP:

ci.mydomain.com
pm.mydomain.com

At this moment I'm able to get access to my web applications from the Internet in this way:

ci.mydomain.com:8080 (Jenkins)
pm.mydomain.com:8081 (Redmine)

Now I want to change this configuration to more friendly form which allow to get access to this applications directly by enter only domains like:

ci.mydomain.com
pm.mydomain.com

Do you have any suggestion what and where should I change in my server configuration to get this result (access many sites on default 80 port)?


texts: Should I erase Website data in settings?

texts: I'm trying to track down why my battery is running down so quickly on my iPhone 6s. Is it okay to erase Safari Website Data?


texts: Failing to send Wake-On-LAN UDP packet with netcat

texts:
I'm trying send a WOL packet from a bash script under Mojave, much like https://stackoverflow.com/a/31588036/9370650, without any third-party utilities, such as the nifty https://github.com/jpoliv/wakeonlan.

I don't, however, seem to be able to successfully broadcast anything at all to 255.255.255.255 on port 9 using netcat.

If I listen to UDP port 9 like this:

$ nc -uv -l 9 -w0

netcat then reports the WOL packet when I run the perl-based wakeonlan script I mentioned above.

But, if I try to do my own UDP broadcast to 255.255.255.255:9, like this:

$ echo "hello" | nc -vu 255.255.255.255 9

it isn't seen by my listening instance of netcat.

For the record, the output from my attempt to broadcast looks like this:

found 0 associations
found 1 connections:
     1: flags=82<CONNECTED,PREFERRED>
    outif (null)
    src 192.168.1.7 port 51674
    dst 255.255.255.255 port 9
    rank info not available

I'm not a networking expert, so I'm likely misunderstanding something here.

Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?


texts: How to know where and when my iphone was bought?

texts: Is it possible to look up where and when an iPhone was purchased, based only on the serial number or other unique info inside the phone?


texts: Is there a gesture to navigate back to previous page in iPad 2 (or the new iPad)?

texts: I've just bought a new iPad, but it's so annoying when I have to click the arrow on the top left of the page to navigate back and forth using Safari. I wonder is there a gesture for navigating that I'm not aware of?


texts: Accessing FTP on different port using Finder

texts:
Just wondering, is it possible accessing FTP on different port (not port 21) using Finder? For example if I have FTP port opened at port 8021 -
how can I access that FTP server at that port using Finder?

If I'm accessing it using Terminal, it's working like a charm and I have no issue with that.

I want to use Finder because it will be integrated in the side bar, and that makes my life easier when transferring the files to the server.


texts: Does OSX 10.10.4 support LZMA compression at the individual file level (not tar files)?

texts:
From the command line, I would like to compress some database dumps using the LZMA algorithm. And, OSX adds XZ support (written in October of last year), claims

" It turns out the XZ support in OS X 10.10 is kind of broken. Single‐file XZ file streams like those created by XZ Utils, 7zip, and other popular compression utilities are entirely unsupported . Only XZ files containing a TAR archive are supported. OS X insist that there must be a TAR archive inside XZ files or it will choke on it. "

Is this true?

I can create a tar archive with LZMA compression as such:

  $ tar cfJ dbDumps.tar.xz DbDumps

But, indeed OSX does not ship with an LZMA executable (as far as I understand). I learned in the Linux & Unix forum that I could use "Homebrew" or "MacPorts" to get an LZMA executable, but I've not done this yet because I want my Mac as stable as possible.

So, is there a way for me, from a command shell, to compress non-tar files using the LZMA algorithm without having to add custom apps from HomeBrew, MacPorts, etc.? (I cannot use a gui to perform the compression.)


texts:
In version 8 of safari the URL of a webpage is displayed centered in the adress-field, and the favicon (or apple-touch-icon) is invisible.

Only when I click into the adress-field the URL moves to the left edge and the favicon becomes visible.

What must I do to always have the URL displayed leftbound with the favicon visible?

This is what I've got now, but don't like:

This is what I want:

How can I get it?

btw:
Is there a way to display favicons in the tabs? sometimes its hard to navigate through many open tabs when there is nothing but text. Favicons in the tabs would be very helpful.

Edit:

If this is impossible, it would be nice to read this in an informed answer, just to have clarity.


texts:
I cannot delete remove applications on Lion.

When I delete some application in launchpad it disappear and reappear.

Situations are quite the same as in this clip( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbh-jUgCjs0 ) I found.

I could delete applications and I do not know what is wrong.


texts: How to share Mac audio over Skype with the microphone?

texts:
System:  2011 iMac, built-in microphone, Mountain Lion.

This is a two part question.  First the more basic scenario, second the more-niche scenario that I hope to ultimately solve.

I want to share my Mac audio over Skype, while still being able to simultaneously talk to the person on the other end of the call.  As of yet, every combination of options I have tried (dozens) involving Soundflower, aggregated devices, and even LineIn.app has completely failed.

So firstly, what are the precise steps needed to get my Mac audio (say, youtube videos playing in a browser...) to transmit over Skype along WITH my voice from the built-in Mic?

Now for the ultimate solution I hope to achieve.  I want to be able to collaborate musically with other parties, using a program called Reason from Propellerhead Software.  Reason has its own audio interface setting - a single setting for both input and output.  I use the Propellerhead's own audio interface called "Balance" as my audio device for the software, providing my physical I/O as well as a headphone mix.

I want to be able to merge the audio output of Reason, along with my voice via the built-in mic of the Mac, and send them together over Skype so that the other person can hear what I'm doing in reasonable fidelity (subject to Skype's limitations, of course).

Can anyone provide the exact steps to share Reason's audio along with my mic, over Skype?

If 3rd party software beyond SoundFlower/LineIn is required, I'm OK with that... though this should work with just SoundFlower even.  I even had it working a couple months ago but can't seem to replicate the result again.


texts: What are the '~previous', '-previous' and '~orig' files in /private/etc/?

texts:
After upgrading from High Sierra to Mojave I've noticed a bunch of new files with prefixes in /etc/:

~previous, e.g. syslog.conf~previous
-previous, e.g. php.ini.default-previous
~orig, e.g.sudoers~orig

What are these? Is it safe to delete them (e.g. in case they are identical to the original files)?


texts: What are the default permissions on the Applications folder in OS X supposed to be?

texts:
I was trying to run VirtualBox on OS X when I got the error:

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine tinyXP.
Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_WORLD_WRITABLE).
Unknown error creating VM (VERR_SUPLIB_WORLD_WRITABLE).

According to this article http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8410, it is because the permissions on my /Applications folder are too broad. I checked, and I was actually very surprised to learn that the folder was in fact world-readable / world-writable.

drwxrwxrwx+ 164 root  admin      5576 Jun 26 22:27 Applications

So before I go changing them, I'm wondering if that is normal or if somehow they got changed?


texts: iPadOS 14.1 backups files from "On My iPad" to iCloud without option to exclude them

texts:
After upgrade to iPadOS 14.1 my iPad wants to backup every file from "On my iPad" folder, which includes around 50 GB, so the backup is always larger than my iCloud quota. I cannot find an option to exclude these files and I couclude that it must be these files because if I delete some files from the "On My iPad" folder the size of the backup decreases correspondingly. I tried to log out of iCloud and then log on again as somebody suggested somewhere, but the behaviour is still the same. I have not observerd such a problem with iPhone after upgrade to iOS 14.1.
Any idea how to exclude the files from "On My iPad" from iCloud backups ? Is there an setting I have not found yet ?


texts: I have a Macbook Pro from late 2011. it shuts down when the battery percentage is anywhere from 20-45%. Everything that I've been reading online says that the battery is dying and needs to be replaced, but I replaced the battery less than six months ago, and to my knowledge, they're supposed to last upwards of 4 years.


texts: Any other Terminal / shell based options to strip all ACLs and extended attributes from a folder?

texts:
I'm having some trouble deleting some folders that contain nothing and have no processes or kexts utilizing them (lsof | grep path_element).  When I try to delete them (as root) I get:
root@hostname /# rm -fr /path/to/folder
rm: /path/to/folder: Operation not permitted

Even after executing the following to strip ACLs / extended attributes, I still cannot rm -fr the folders:
sudo chmod -RN /path/to/folder
sudo xattr -c -r /path/to/folder

Executing ls shows no attributes:
ls -lea -@ /path/to/folder

Any other options to ensure all permissions are stripped and that an rm operation as root should work?


texts: Sometimes can't see macOS Spotlight, but it still works

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I've had this problem for some months, and I've waited to ask in the hopes I might gather more data on it, but this seems to be the most I can discern.
I'm running macOS 10.15.6 Catalina on a macBook Air connected to an external monitor. The external display is not a mirror, and it's arranged above the built-in screen. The built-in has the dock (and has it on the left side).
Sometimes, randomly, when I press commandspacebar for Spotlight, I don't see the Spotlight search input appear anywhere on either screen.
If I click the trackpad point on another app window and/or the desktop and/or on the other display, and/or if I hide my application or hide all other applications, and then hit the keyboard shortcut again, eventually it shows.
Strangely, if I use the keyboard shortcut, see nothing, but proceed with typing dictionary (or whatever app I intended to hail, which is my most common usage for Spotlight) and hit return, macOS launches the app. This would indicate that Spotlight is working, it's just somehow not visible.
Any ideas what might be causing this invisibility? And how better to address it, rather than randomly clicking and hiding, or entering text and hoping for the best?


texts: I got it from a yard sale. it won't turn on. if plugged in it shows the dead battery symbol, Apple logo, turns off and repeats. iTunes won't detect it unless in DFU mode. recovery fails on waiting for iPad(unknown error).


texts: Display formatting symbols (invisible characters) on webpages and text forms

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I am using various online tools for translation and proofreading, and I find that it would be very interesting to be able to display the most common formatting symbols in a browser.

(Spaces and non-breakable spaces are be very different and important, as is being able to count line breaks at a glance for example).

I believe that since they are encoded by different HTML codes, there should be a way to display them within a webpage, but couldn't find any way to do this no matter what browser I looked into.

Here's what the difference looks like in the HTML between non-breakable space and regular space:

jusqu'à 19&nbsp;heures

It seems that it would be so simple to program it into an app or as an add-on (replace regular space with the regular space symbol, replace   with non-breakable space symbol, etc), that I can't understand how there's almost nothing about such a feature online.


texts: How can I rip audio CDs and normalize them at the same time?

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I am a veteran Windows user (sorry!) who typically rips audio discs with CDex or EAC. CDex includes the option to normalize volume levels during the ripping process.

I am trying to find a program to rip audio discs on a Mac, other than iTunes, and am coming up empty-handed. I have found XLD and Max, both of which seem to be highly recommended and feature-rich, but neither seem to offer normalization.

I don't want to have to run audio tracks through a separate program before compressing to MP3 (or any other format).

I'm aware that Mac is a superb platform for professional audio, with industry pros using software like Logic and Pro Tools in production environments, but I find it a bit frustrating that CD ripping software for Mac seems to often lack this feature.

Am I just not finding "the one", or is there some reason that normalization is not common among these rippers? What software (free or not) should I be using for CD ripping which meets the following requirements:

Normalizes volume levels
Names files based on database lookup (such as freedb)
Supports MP3 compression (LAME for example)
Accurate rips with moderate error-checking


texts: Movies button missing in Purchased items in iTunes

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I've bought some movies in iTunes on my Mac. Now I want to download them to my Windows XP PC in iTunes. (Both machines have the latest iTunes version installed.)

According to the description at the apple web site, I should see the movies in the "Purchased" section of the quick links. I can get to the "Purchased" section fine, except that I don't get a "Movies" button at all.

Any ideas about how to get the movies button (or get the movies to the other pc in an other way)?


texts: change all .sh files to executable by terminal

texts: i hate retyping chmod +x filename and insect to run from terminal. how do i set    this for all .sh files ? I've tried Inspect then manually setting the extension


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Backstory: Installation of MacOS Mojava failed on my late '12 iMac with exception: com.apple.DiskManagement error -69854. I can find few other questions with this problem, but the general consent is, that the problem comes from Mojave trying to convert the FusionDrive to APFS. I tried the installation two times, I do have a TimeCapsule backup as welll as a USB with bootable Mojave and am ready to try things out. What I thought would be smart to do is to convert the FusionDrive to APFS before attempting to upgrade the OS.

I see two possibilities: do it via DiskUtility, or from Terminal with diskutil. The first option does not work as the menu entry is greyed out, if I try from High Sierra as well as from the Mojave USB stick. Running diskutil list lists three disks:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            999.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.1 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            121.0 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk1s3

/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +1.1 TB     disk2
                                 Logical Volume on disk1s2, disk0s2
                                 {some id I am not sure if better hidden}
                                 Unencrypted Fusion Drive

TLDR; which one of the drives do I have to convert to APFS and how?