texts: I remember there used to be a play button on my music files on my Desktop. I would click it, and it would play that song without opening anything up. Now I can't. I have to make do with opening Finder, switching to column mode, and then playing it. I don't want to use Quick Look, because it disappears when I move away. I may have switched view settings, updated Quicktime, etc. Do you know of a way that I can do this again?


texts: Problems with diacritics on vnc-viewer under Mac OS X

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I have an iMac desktop and a Mac Mini, both running under OS Lion, and both under my local network WiFi (iMac with a cable and Mini on WiFi).  I configured "Screen sharing" on the Mini and installed the TightVNC Viewer version 1.3.10 on the iMac.  When I invoke the vncviewer on the iMac, it connects fine and I am able to do everything I need. The only problem are the keys used for diacritics (accents): none of them work! The keyboard of my iMac (standard Apple keyboard) is configured as "U.S. International PC", so that when I type on the iMac, for instance, the two keys '^a' I get the character 'â' (a with circumflex). If I want the character '~' I press the keys ~ and a space. I chose the same keyboard option for my Mini, but these special keys are completely dead and I can't get any accented letters, or even worse, I can't type personal URLs which include ~.

Any hints on how to solve the problem?


texts: I'm considering buying an iPad 2. I already have an iPod Touch and was wondering if there is a way to upgrade apps, either for free or pay the difference, that I have already purchased in order to get the iPad specific version, or do I have to rebuy anything that I would want on the iPad? I know it can run iPhone apps, I'm just looking at the apps that have specific ones for each device.


texts: Where do I find the full man page for afplay

texts:
In Terminal afplay -h shows full help text but the man page shows hardly nothing.

Is there any way to get a longer help page for man afplay?

I never use Terminal and it would be much easier if i could see this longer complete man page in Man Viewer or if there would be some kind of AppleScript or unix script which reads it from somewhere and then shows it or re-writes the man page.

Some other unix apps has this problem too and it would be nice if it works for all apps with short man page.

I wanted to use afplay long time ago, but when i saw its short man page i didn't start to use it because i didn't know it has all those settings which are listed in Terminal.


texts: How can I download the installer for macOS Sierra 10.12?

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I have a MacBook Pro running El Capitan that I need to upgrade to Sierra 10.12 (not High Sierra) for development reasons.

I have previously upgraded my personal computer as follows: El Capitan -> Sierra -> High Sierra.  Knowing that, I should be able to see the previous version in the App Store as outlined in this answer.

However, I don't see Sierra in my Purchased tab in the App Store:

Was Sierra 10.12 completely removed from the store (including previous purchases)?


texts:
I recorded a long and important voice-memo on my old iPhone which is not synced anymore to any iTunes. I wanted to retrieve the memo using the advice here, however choosing Sync Music in iTunes brought up this warning:

I tried to click Sync Music and the capacity bar at the bottom indeed indicated that all music, and presumably the voice memos too, would be deleted next time I sync the iPhone (the blue Audio bar was completely gone). I immediately reverted.

How can I retrieve the voice memos?

The other options in the question linked above include:

DropVox - which costs money and forces me to have a DropBox account
Macroplant iExplorer - which is a freeware that doesn't work for me


texts: iPhone 8 Plus (iOS 11.4) is frozen on emergency SOS screen

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Last evening I tried to add a system macroscript (Switch Control) recipe. After that my iPhone wasn't responding to any of touch moves. I managed to unlock it with Touch ID but I failed a couple of times and now it requires a password. I tried this:

 Subtle click the volume UP button.
 Subtle click the volume DOWN button.
 Hold the startup button until you see apple logo.

Instead of force restart I'm stuck in emergency SOS screen mode. Touch interface doesn't work, force restart is not possible now. What do I do?


texts: Can the excessively limited "Recent Items" list be adjusted to include more document types?

texts:
Recent Items under the Apple menu or in the Dock could be an excellent way to quickly access files that you have been working with recently. Alas, it's functionality is destroyed by obvious document file types not being included in the list. If you open a PDF it's included, if you open a Word file it's not. That makes no sense.

You can see in the picture above that even though Office applications have been included in the recent list, the actual documents (.doc[x], .ppt[x], .xls[x]) that were opened have not.

Is there a way to adjust the file type list to go into Recent Items/Documents to a useful set of document types?


texts:
I am new to the apple world and finding out some "how to stuff". One of the things I am looking for is the Microsoft equivalent of the "network center".

Everything works on my mac network-wise. However, I would like to see all devices in the network. For instance all my Sonos devices. If something is not working I was used to quickly open the network overview in Windows and see whether all devices where at least visible in the network.

How do I do this on a Mac?


texts: "The document could not be saved" - Preview error

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I have the issue on macOS Sierra(10.12.1) and still have it on High Sierra(10.13.3).

I get this error message(not all the time) a lot after editing an image, and trying to save it. I can't quit Preview either, so the only way to close Preview for me when this happens is to force quit Preview.

Clicking on duplicate doesn't work because my edits made to the original document don't carry over and Preview still doesn't quit.


texts: What is a good OSX incremental backup software (not time machine)

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So I used to use CCC to clone my external drive to another external drive for a backup copy.

What I realized is that I want incremental backup that is versioned. So I can go back to a copy that is on a specific date in the past.

I don't want to use time machine for this because right now TM is already being used to backup my main drive to a time capsule.

As far as I know, I can't setup TM to backup my main drive to time capsule while choosing to backup an external drive to another location.

I guess I'm looking for 3rd party solution here?


texts: How do I negotiate dialogue boxes using the keyboard only?

texts:
On Windows based machines, whenever a dialogue box pops up with multiple choice options (ie 'Abort', 'Continue', 'Retry'), you can use the 'Tab' key to cycle through those options without using the mouse.

On OSX, there doesn't appear to be an option to cycle through dialogue boxes using a key rather than the Trackpad.

Is there any keyboard shortcut to do this?


texts: How to prevent scrolling while entering text in a text entry box in a Fluid app?

texts:
In my job, I have a number of "always-open" web applications that are part of my desktop layout.  I always have Trello open, plus two different Stack Exchange Chat rooms.  I also have another browser window that I use like everyone else, navigating to various sites in tabs, etc.

Because I always want to keep trello and chat open, and I never want to open links from those sites in those windows, Fluid is a near perfect solution, as it creates a native, OSX app for each window.  I click it, and it opens that site as a stand-alone app, which I can set to open all links in my "normal" browser, etc.  I LOVE IT, and was going to switch to the paid version and get my small team on it. (I have no affiliation, just a genuine fan).

But I've encountered an issue:

At seemingly random times, typing text in a text entry box causes the cursor to leave the box and the window to scroll back up most of the way to the top of the window.

I've tested this quite a bit, and know this:

I'm not accidentally hitting Control, Alt, etc. The only modifier key I'm using is Shift.
I can't seem to repro it even when using the same text in the same instance it happened.  After occurrences, I literally moved focus back to the box where it happened, deleted the text I was typing when it happened, and re-typed it, but it didn't occur.
It never seems to happen when I'm not typing text in the box, so I'm pretty sure the issue  is linked to that activity.
This has always happened to me in a Stack Exchange Chat window, but I don't use Fluid for any other "text-entry" sites, so that may not be relevant.  (It's not a problem for SE chat in normal browsers; I've logged thousands of hours doing the same thing in chrome and safari without incident).

Since each fluid instance is essentially an app, I thought there might be some hotkey setting somewhere I had set wrong, but can't find anything of the sort in the app or from online searches.


texts:
My Apple TV works perfectly as a stand alone machine. It plays the channels I want to watch.
However, Neither my MacBook Air, My iPads, my iPhone 6 and my iMac will no longer connect to AirPlay.
All these devices worked perfectly until recently, AirPlay was a wonderful method by which I could stream videos to the Apple TV for watching on the 'big screen'.

Now, none of them connect. they are all on the same wifi network and 'AirPlay' is switched on on the Apple TV.
Using the iPad, the 'Airplay' button is there, when I choose to play to Apple TV, the iPad says"PLaying on Apple TV" but nothing happens on the TV.
Both the MacBook Air and the iMac are unable to connect to Apple TV. The AirPlay button is there, and when I choose Apple TV, after some moments I get a message "Unable to connect to Apple TV"
Even though this says unable to connect to Apple TV, when I use iTunes to stream MP4 files, I go into the menu on Apple TV, Choose 'Computers' and I can access the MP4 files and they play perfectly.

But, as the computers 'cannot connect' I am unable to Mirror my computer screen, hence, I cannot use 'Beamer' to stream other file types such as .avi or .mkv from them to the TV.
Also, when I stream live TV from my iPads, they say "Playing on Apple TV", but the Apple TV does not respond by playing the files.

I have reset the Apple TV twice and everything is as should be as far as set up is concerned, and I have checked everything I can think of on the computers and have checked all the settings.

What's gone wrong? I hope someone has an idea that I haven't already tried over the last 5 days of searching for answers on the internet and checking settings on all my devices.


texts: How can CapitalOne on iOS read my credit card?

texts:
I was using the CapitalOne app and got asked to verify my identity as an added step before being shown my full credit card number, but today I got offered a new verification option: Tap one of my other cards against my phone to verify my identity.

I followed the instructions and sure enough, all I had to do was tap my card and my identity was verified. Is this based on a new iOS capability, and how does it work?


texts: Can any one upload their httpd.conf file for mac?

texts:
I was testing virtual hosting and doing a lot of stuff. Then I suddenly delete my httpd.conf file using rm command.
I've deleted httpd.conf.bak and original/httpd.conf. Well now I'm guessing i don't have any way to gain access on httpd.conf.

Can any one please upload their httpd.conf from original folder.

Anyone please kindly upload your /etc/apache2/original/httpd.conf.

PS: I've tried copying httpd.conf from Reinstall/restore Apache httpd in OS X I'm getting load module error so trying to solve it.

My system: OS X El Capitan 10.11.5


texts: I am very confused with this problem. So I just recently purchased a 8 core 3.0ghz Mac Pro 2,1 and I upgraded the memory with 16gbs of hynix ram, and everything worked great the computer was reading all 16gbs of memory and I thought all was well but when I tried to restart the computer it just shuts off and the screen goes black and there are no start up chimes or anything. So I have to hold the power button and shut it off all the way and then reboot it and everything works fine again until I try to restart it again? Any help would be appreciated. I am running OSX Lion! P.S there are no led lights that are illuminated on the memory boards!


texts:
I'm having issues with installing Apple mobile device support. Every time I try to install Apple mobile device support I get this annoying message:

the installer encountered errors before apple mobile device support could be configured

I have tried these two ideas with no luck.

Had this issue, and none of the solutions above worked, here is what I did to fix the issue, Install iTunes like you normally would, admin rights etc.

When you get the error message

  iTunes errors occurred during installation before iTunes could be configured" do not click finish, leave that folder up, no navigate to your appdata directory such as example C:\Users\Your Username\appdata\local\temp, inside there look for a file called iTunes64Setup.log or iTunes32Setup1850.log, open that up and scroll down, look for these key things as in example,

"Executing: "C:\windows\system32\msiexec.exe" /i C:\Users\Crusisxx\AppData\Local\Temp\IXP593.TMP\iTunes64.msi" INSTALL_SUPPORT_PACKAGES=1"

so I would navigate inside the folder in my temp called "IXP593.TMP, there you will find all the installation packages, copy all of those files and paste either on your desktop or a new folder ect, once done you can now click finish on the failed itunes installer, now whether or not where ever you decided to place your files you copied from that temp folder you will want to run Itunes64.msi or Itunes.msi ect, and run the installer, you should now have successfully of installed Itunes.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5418367?tstart=0

I got it. I just first uninstalled iTunes then this:

Open up the Command Prompt as an Administrator (Go to All Programs > Accessories and Right Click on Command Prompt and then choose Run as administrator)
Type cd C:\Windows\SysWOW64
Type regsvr32 vbscript.dll (This registers VB Script with your computer.)
Now install iTunes as you normally would by double clicking on the install program and wait for iTunes to finish installing.
Type regsvr32 /u vbscript.dll (This unregisters VB Script with your computer.)

https://discussions.apple.com/message/10790766#10790766

What else can I do and why is it not working?


texts:
How do I access my default video camera on my mac? I know on Linux it is /dev/video0 but my Mac does not have that. I'm trying to capture my webcam into ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i /dev/video0

But it won't work because /dev/video0 doesn't exist.


texts: Check automatically if a drive is mounted

texts:
I'd like to automate my family backups, specifically I'd like to run a shell script (with rsync) when an external drive is connected.

Since it's a family thing, it should be also sort of GUI driven, maybe an icon like Dropbox. Probably a shell script with fswatch isn't really nice to play with, they would probably complain and certainly won't understand if an error occurs.

I was thinking about Automator or AppleScript (I have the GUI for the backup script in AppleScript already, but no automation), since "Folder Actions" isn't available for /Volumes, but any other solution is more than welcome.

Any suggestions?


texts: How to plot a histogram to show occurrence of a certain number using Numbers

texts:
Sorry for this newbie question:

I want to do something like in a column there are numbers 0.2, 0.3, 0.2, 0.4,

0.2 occur 2 times, whereas 0.3 and 0.4 occur once, I want to make make histogram that first bar show 0.2, the y value will be 2, and 0.3, 0.3 only 1


texts: Excel File Saved in Auto Recovery Please Help

texts:
I have been working on an Excel document for 6 hours and it has saved in an auto recovery file that I cannot access.

I have reassured that I need to go to finder and select go. However I have a macbook pro and there is no go option in Finder.

Please help


texts: How to add addional HFS+ partitions after installing Windows with Bootcamp

texts:
The goal is to create a few extra HFS+ partitions after running the Bootcamp utility while not breaking Bootcamp's boot-ability. I am Running OS X El Capitain, and I only have a single disk drive to work with in a MacBook Pro.

The goal is to have a partition layout something like the following

CurrentMacOS

Windows Bootcamp

ExtraHFS1

ExtraHFS2

...

So far I have tried installing OS X, then doing BootCamp then adding partitions in disk utility, which breaks bootcamp. Also it seems bootcamp assistant will not work if there are multiple HFS partions already existing.
So the whole process is kind of terrible.


texts: Getting errors when trying to send something using Gmail and Mail 5

texts:
I've had a problem for awhile with a Gmail account linked to Mail, which arose last summer after I upgraded to Lion. When I try to send a signed message (signed, in terms of security, not a signature at the end of a message), a small error message pops up for no more than half a second (way to short for me to read), but I've been able to make out the message based on a well-timed screen capture:

  An error occured while trying to sign this message with a certificate from [myusername]@gmail.com. Verify that your certificate for this address is correct, and that its private key is in your keychain.

I have no idea what to do in this case, as my knowledge of digital security is superficial, to say the least. I posted this question on Apple Community Discussions awhile ago, but I got no answers whatsoever. Any advice?


texts: Longer delay before scrollbar disappears

texts:
I would like to use one of the first two options on the Show scroll bars controls:

The problem is that the scrollbar disappears like almost immediately and I can not get the cursor on top of it soon enough.  It is presently about one second of visibility: even just two seconds would be sufficient.
Is there any way to make this behavior more usable - short of using the big hammer and setting to Always ?


texts: Will upgrading Mac Mini hard drive void AppleCare Warranty?

texts:
After purchasing a Mac Mini, I wanted to replace the hard drive from a 5,400 rpm hard drive to a 7,200 hard drive.

Will this replacement void my AppleCare warranty?


texts: iPhone (iOS) mistakes my router (mifi) as needing a login page

texts:
When using my iOS 8 iPhone 6 with a cellular mifi, it sometimes thinks this device has some sort of webpage login page, the way public wifi does (I guess sometimes called a landing page).  However, it does not.  Is there a way in iOS I can mark a SSID as never needing a login page?

I suspect the reason it does this is this:

The mifi gives out DHCP before it has connected to the internet via cellular
iOS sees that it has a local IP address but can't reach the interent via some sort of test
Thus iOS assumes this is a scenario where you have to login, and tries to bring up a landing page - its blank but has the domain name that the router uses a shortcut to get to its web interface

Thanks!


texts: How do I sign out of Google on my iPhone 7?  Everything I read tells you how to delete it or remove it, but I want to be able to use it later.  It appears that if you do not log out, Google merges your different Google drive accounts (personal/work).


texts: Delete a currently-open file directly in the application?

texts:
OS X's ability to rename or move a currently-open file right inside the application is really handy:

To take it one step further, is there a trick to actually delete the current file  inside the app also? (Obviously 'closing' the file would need to be the second half of the process.)

It would save a lot of time to not have to close the file, manually locate it in Finder, then move it to Trash - but but just delete it right there and then.

I have tried dragging the 'file' (with the file icon to the left of the file name in window title) to the Trash icon on the Dock, but that doesn't actually move it to Trash.

The best I can think of is to add ~/.Trash directory as an item in Finder Favorites, then change the 'Where' in the above screenshot to the created 'Trash' Favorite shortcut, followed by a Cmd+W to close it.

It's a little clunky, but it's not bad.

So is there a nifty Automator workflow / AppleScript (which can then be easily assigned to a hotkey), to make the above process quicker? A single AppleScript that could perform both the step to move current file to 'Trash' directory and then the subsequent Cmd+W keypress after a 200ms gap e.g., would be ideal.


texts: OS X Time Machine keeps getting disabled

texts: For some reason my Time Machine keeps getting disabled in OS X. Every time I look at it, it's disabled. Why would this happen? It is an office Time Machine server I am backing up to and only when I am at work, but the next day when I return to work with my MacBook Pro it is disabled again. How can I see why it is disabling?


texts: Has the WiFi KRACK vulnerability been patched for iOS?

texts:
There is a new vulnerability in WPA2 called KRACK (short for Key Reinstallation Attack), as described in The Guardian article:
 'All WiFi networks' are vulnerable to hacking, security expert discovers'

According to the article:

  The vulnerability affects a number of operating systems and devices,
  the report said, including Android, Linux, Apple, Windows, OpenBSD,
  MediaTek, Linksys and others.

Have there been any security releases for iOS fixing this?


texts: Mac software that automatically switches between applications every several seconds or so?

texts:
I need a Mac software that automatically switches between applications every 10 seconds or so. I need it for a trade show I am participating at.

In the past I've used AutoTab, but it is only for Windows.

Any idea if a similar software exists for Mac?

Regards,


texts: How can I create an ad-hoc connection from my Macbook Pro wifi connection?

texts:
My Macbook Pro using a Wifi internet connection & I would like to share this connection to other systems in my house. When I tried to configure by myself I don't see the usual "airport" option to create the ad-hoc connection.

How can I do this in lion OS X?


texts: Where can i find the source code for the pfctl utility?

texts:
I have looked here: https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu

But all i can find is the 'back end' for the pfctl tool, but i am interested in the command-line pfctl tool itself, the option parser and so on.

Has Apple released source code for this or documented it in a manual page for 10.14.1?


texts:
I had downloaded several songs on my iPod about 2 years ago. I purchased more and downloaded them, but realized many of the original downloads were missing. I tired to download again and it doesn't work. Is there a limit for songs/albums? They are all on my laptop as purchased. I only use it at the gym, but would like to have more choices.

Can anyone help?


texts: In the OS X Contacts app (v7.1) how can I delete a group?

texts:
I've accidentally created a group in the Contacts app, below 'All Contacts'. How do I delete it?

If I remove the group name it renames itself to 'untitled group'. Here's a screenshot of what I see:


texts: Adding an IMAP account without saving emails locally in Mail 7.0

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I want to add an IMAP-account to Mail.
Since I've used this account for many years, it contains thousands of emails and archive folders, and I really don't want to fill up my SSD with that.

I couldn't find a way to limit synchronization to a certain time frame or specific folders (I guess that's not really the concept of IMAP).

I found out that there used to be a "Don't keep copies of any messages" checkbox in Mail's preferences, so emails would not be stored locally.
I would be completely satisfied with this solution, however, in Mail 7.0 this option was removed (which I don't understand, seems like such a basic function to me).

Does anybody have a solution for this?

Suggestions for alternative software are welcome as well (in case there's really no way to use Apple Mail without downloading my entire mail history).


texts: I have a directory behaving very strangely

texts:
I have a directory that is behaving very strangely, perhaps it got corrupted. I can move the directory freely, either in Finder or terminal (I'm running Mac OS X Lion). But any query on the 'internals' of the folder (ls, rm, du, etc...) hangs. Not just fails, but I can't even kill the process with ^C, I need to force quit the terminal app and restart the app.

Any thoughts on what's happening and how to fix it?


texts:
I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to Yosemite. Everything was fine ... then suddenly the MacBook Pro does not start up. It boots with some distorted graphics, and then just immediately restarts.

I tried Recovery by pressing shift key. Command + Shift. Nothing. Same thing...Apple logo..progress bar, grey screen, fan speeds up ... shutdown.

I tried Apple's recommendations. But surprisingly same sequence..

Option-Command-P-R -- It did give me sound twice and above sequence
repeats. (I don't see those icon etc for hardware test..why ?)
Pressed shift, same sequence repeats.
Command V Video here ... no error but same sequence ... it shows grey
screen and restarts.


texts: What doesn't get cloned to new hard drive in Super Duper?

texts:
I recently upgraded my 2010 Macbook Pro HDD to an SSD. I went from a 500GB HDD to a 512GB SSD (Crucial M4). I formatted the new SSD using Disk Utility into Mac OS X Journaled file system. I then used Super Duper to clone the original drive over by selecting "Backup -  all files" from the dropdown.

I recall that the original drive had about 120GB of free space leftover on it. With my newly cloned drive, it states that there's 195GB free. I primarily used iStat Menus, to measure the amount of free space.

So the math looks to be like:

195 - 12 - 120 = 63

About 63GB of difference, taking into account the 12GB of increased storage already. It's actually probably closer to 70GB considering I've added some new files in usage recently.

What didn't get cloned over to the new drive in this approximate 60-70GB?

Everything boots up and runs just fine. There just seems to be some kind of discrepancy of what was reported as free before and currently.

Some things to consider:

I have Windows 7 (Ultimate) and Windows 8 (Preview edition) as VMs using Parallels 8, which were cloned over.
This is taking into account that I emptied the Trash already.
The original HDD is a Seagate from Apple.


texts: Set program as default for all openable files on mac

texts:
Is there a way to set a program as default, for all file types it can open? I know there is a setting for this in windows, but how can I do this on Mac? Or at least a menu where I can toggle all files that can be opened, like you can in windows?

1. Set as default
2. List of files


texts: Need Help Fixing Partitioning after Deleting Core Storage Booter and Windows

texts:
I know there is a plenty on the Internet, but I am afraid to touch it since the data on my partition is valuable for me now.

My situation:

I have MacBook Air with OS Yosemite 2011 11" (128G).

I wanted to create a dual-boot configuration (MacOS + Windows) and succeeded. (I did following protective MBR creation manual somewhere on the net).
After a while, Windows started consuming too much space, so I decided to re-install it with a lighter build.

What happened is that I dropped the partition (600 MB) in Windows installer in order to re-map the space, and LOST ability to boot in MacOS.

( Originally, I thought it was Microsoft Reserved partition, but the answer below suggested it was "booter" partition. )

I did restore the boot by installing rEFInd to EFI drive.

Currently, MacOS partition is not visible if I press "Options" key, but it still boots up thankfully to EFI boot.

Trying to remap the drive, I did drop all Windows partitions in order to put that space back to MacOS one.

The issue is that now I can not edit partitions via DiskUtility (the one with GUI) - it just simply does nothing when I try to modify them. It shows gray circle at the beginning of "MBR" space.

My output of diskutil list is following (there is an interesting thing that record for GPT and MBR for MacOS partition is different: 51.2GB versus 50.8GB, that has happened because I did merge dropped 600MB with MacOS partition via DiskUtility):

mes-MacBook-Air:~ me$ sudo diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         51.2 GB    disk0s2
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS MacOS                  *50.8 GB    disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 84A33FDC-BA63-43B5-A43F-E4BF61D0830A
                                 Unencrypted

$ sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
    start         size  index  contents
        0            1         PMBR
        1            1         Pri GPT header
        2            4         Pri GPT table
        6        76800      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
    76806     12500474      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
 12577280     17044987
 29622267            4         Sec GPT table
 29622271            1         Sec GPT header

Help me out to put the space back and merge it back into one.
Or guide me to the good source on the topic if I ask too much.

Thank you people.


texts: Why is my (automatic) clock running 8 minutes behind?

texts:
I just realized my macbook's clock is 8 minutes behind. And yet the setting is on "automatically set to date and time". See screenshot. How can I fix this?

On the left: asking for "time" in google. 14:32
On the right: 14:24 and the "automatic" box is ticked


texts: Create new (.url) file with url address as variable input

texts:
I am looking for a way to create a new .url file in the current folder, but have an input field that allows me to enter the desired webaddress the file should link to. The whole process should be similar as to how windows handles the creation of a new shortcut, meaning it should as for the link address and then create the shortcut in the active folder.

Is there any way to realize this with Apple Script and / or Keyboard Maestro? This would be useful as I often find myself wanting to add .url files to folders.

Thanks!
A2k

EDIT:

So I managed to get the above somewhat working with the code below, but still face a couple of problems:
* the filename is hardcoded as "Shortcut.url". The script breaks though if the filename "shortcut.url" already exists
* the script breaks when pressing the "Cancel" button of the file dialog window. How can I address this scenario and add error handling?

tell application "Finder"
    try
        display dialog "Enter URL / IP Address below:" default answer ""
        set urlName to the text returned of result
        if length of urlName = 0 then
            return 0
        end if
        set fileExt to ".url"
        set thisFolder to the target of the front window as alias
        set newFile to "Shortcut" & fileExt

        make new file at thisFolder with properties {name:newFile, file type:"TEXT", creator type:"ttxt"}

        set tFile to open for access (thisFolder as text) & newFile with write permission
        try
            write ("
[InternetShortcut]
URL=" & urlName & "
IconIndex=0
            ") to tFile
            close access tFile
        on error
            close access tFile
        end try

    on error errMsg
        display dialog (errMsg)
    end try
end tell

Appreciate any help,
A2k


texts: macOS - User can perform admin tasks but cannot sudo

texts:
MacOS Catalina 10.15.3 Centrify 5.5.2-702
UserA is a "Mobile" (AD
Authenticated) user showing as "Admin" in Users & Groups
UserA is shown as a member of the local "admin" group when running "groups x" or "id"
UserA can perform admin tasks in the GUI (such as installing software,
unlocking System Preferences etc)
UserA cannot sudo on a particular MacX "xxx is not in the
sudoers file. This incident will be reported."
UserA can sudo on other Macs(Y,Z,...)
Logs show Centrify PAM is successful. Other (local) users can sudo
(no issue with the sudo file)

I'm at a loss why this is happening - and have spent hours troubleshooting this to no avail. Any help where to look next would be incredibly helpful!


texts:
So I went on the App section on my Mac's iTunes, and clicked download... asked for my AppleID, and I typed it in. But then I get red text above it saying This action could not be completed. Try again. Help?

OSX 10.13
iTunes 12.6.2
Yes, I know it's not the latest iTunes, but the new one doesn't have apps.


texts: How to find if a second-hand iPhone is stolen after purchase?

texts:
I bought a used iPhone 4 with iOS 7 from a local shop. I am not sure as to how to be sure if it is not stolen. I was able to do a factory reset on the phone and use my own Apple ID to use the phone.

I tried going to iCloud to check if Find My iPhone was active on the device and I found out that it is activated but using my Apple ID only.

I know that I should do a proper verification before I bought it but I think it is too late now and nothing can be done about it other than checking next time I buy a used phone.

As proof of purchase the store owner wrote the Price on a Plain paper with his name and phone number and handed it to me.


texts: Installing pyqt5 with homebrew just for python2

texts:
I don't have (and do not wish to have) python3 installed. I want to install pyqt5 just for python2.

However every time I try to install pyqt5 with homebrew it keeps downloading python3 and trying to install it

Even using brew install pyqt5 --without-python which I would assume is an option created for this exact purpose, just produces exactly the same behaviour and starts downloading python3.

Any ideas?
Any help would be appreciated!


texts: Why my monitor connected via usb-c hdmi display blue lines?

texts:
When I connect monitor to my new MacBook Pro 2020 13 inch via hdmi to usb-c then I can see the picture like this:

Why there is a lot of blue points?
My cable and converter:


texts: Mail App keeps hanging (not crashing) on Yosemite 10.10.3

texts:
Mail runs fine for a few hours, then hangs. I must force quit, then reopen. It runs fine for another few hours then crashes.

This is a fresh install of Yosemite, and I rebuilt the index and tried deleting things people suggest I delete in the library. It redownloaded all the messages already.

Here's the first bit of crash report, which is Greek to me:

Date/Time:       2015-06-10 19:20:29 -0700
OS Version:      10.10.3 (Build 14D136)
Architecture:    x86_64
Report Version:  21

Command:         Mail
Path:            /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Version:         8.2 (2098)
Build Version:   1
Project Name:    Mail
Source Version:  2098000000000000
Parent:          launchd [1]
PID:             24057

Event:           hang
Duration:        3.80s (process was unresponsive for 3984 seconds before sampling)
Steps:           39 (100ms sampling interval)

Hardware model:  MacPro3,1
Active cpus:     8

Fan speed:       586 rpm

--------------------------------------------------
Timeline format: stacks are sorted chronologically
Use -i and -heavy to re-report with count sorting
--------------------------------------------------

Heaviest stack for the main thread of the target process:
  39  start + 1 (libdyld.dylib + 13769) [0x7fff8a4c45c9]
  39  NSApplicationMain + 1832 (AppKit + 13140) [0x7fff8fadd354]
  39  -[NSApplication run] + 594 (AppKit + 551923) [0x7fff8fb60bf3]
  39  -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 346 (AppKit + 593768) [0x7fff8fb6af68]
  39  _DPSNextEvent + 978 (AppKit + 596411) [0x7fff8fb6b9bb]
  39  _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 71 (HIToolbox + 205099) [0x7fff8c4bf12b]
  39  ReceiveNextEventCommon + 431 (HIToolbox + 205546) [0x7fff8c4bf2ea]
  39  RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 235 (HIToolbox + 206191) [0x7fff8c4bf56f]
  39  CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 328 (CoreFoundation + 465912) [0x7fff88299bf8]
  39  __CFRunLoopDoObservers + 368 (CoreFoundation + 524416) [0x7fff882a8080]
  39  __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 23 (CoreFoundation + 524583) [0x7fff882a8127]
  39  CA::Transaction::observer_callback(__CFRunLoopObserver*, unsigned long, void*) + 71 (QuartzCore + 118553) [0x7fff860fef19]
  39  CA::Transaction::commit() + 390 (QuartzCore + 58286) [0x7fff860f03ae]
  39  CA::Context::commit_transaction(CA::Transaction*) + 242 (QuartzCore + 58898) [0x7fff860f0612]
  39  CA::Layer::layout_and_display_if_needed(CA::Transaction*) + 35 (QuartzCore + 61057) [0x7fff860f0e81]
  39  CA::Layer::display_if_needed(CA::Transaction*) + 603 (QuartzCore + 63485) [0x7fff860f17fd]
  39  -[_NSViewBackingLayer display] + 834 (AppKit + 401702) [0x7fff8fb3c126]
  39  _NSBackingLayerDisplay + 617 (AppKit + 415019) [0x7fff8fb3f52b]
  39  CA::Layer::display_() + 1546 (QuartzCore + 70716) [0x7fff860f343c]
  39  x_blame_allocations + 81 (QuartzCore + 120468) [0x7fff860ff694]
  39  ___ZN2CA5Layer8display_Ev_block_invoke + 59 (QuartzCore + 120535) [0x7fff860ff6d7]
  39  CABackingStoreUpdate_ + 127 (QuartzCore + 120668) [0x7fff860ff75c]
  39  __psynch_cvwait + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib + 90422) [0x7fff8293c136]
 *39  psynch_cvcontinue + 0 (pthread + 26908) [0xffffff7f80ed891c]

Process:         Mail [24057]
Path:            /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Architecture:    x86_64
Parent:          launchd [1]
UID:             501
Sudden Term:     Dirty
Task size:       57324 pages (+4)
CPU Time:        0.074s
Note:            Unresponsive for 3984 seconds before sampling
Note:            3 idle work queue threads omitted


texts: iOS 5 OTA sync went over 3G instead of wifi

texts:
I upgraded my iPhone 4 to iO 5 last night, setup iCloud and went to sleep.

In the morning, I noticed that my fully charged phone had completely discharged and my Mac iTunes was showing a notice that sync had failed with the iPhone.

Later today, I got an email from AT&T saying that I have used my 200 MB plan by 90% and I should take care.(It was about 100MB yesterday)

Did the iCloud sync over 3G last night? (My iPhone and Mac were both on my home wifi network that did not break during the night)

I was playing with the iMessage feature and I sent an email to one of my other (non-AppleID) email IDs from it, just to check. The email came thru with the email ID being my_phone_number@mms.att.net
and this was when I got that 90% email from AT&T.

I don't use SMS so I've completely disabled it by calling the AT&T call center.

What caused my 3G plan to be over used? The MMS or iCloud?


texts:
Today I updated to macOS Sierra. Until now I disabled WLAN, because my Mac is connected via Ethernet (cable). However, Siri needs WLAN to determine where I am. Thus without WLAN, Siri cannot answer my questions e.g. about the weather. So I enabled it again.

Now my Mac is also connected via WLAN. Does this mean, net traffic now goes over the air though the Mac is connected via Ethernet? (I wouldn’t like that.)


texts: Recreating a partition on internal hard drive on Mojave/Catalina

texts:
I created a partition on my internal HDD of 50GB, in favour of Time Machine backup.

Unfortunately, I discovered that Time Machine requires 100GB to backup my drive regularly.

So I went back to Disk Utility, and removed the partition I created, and tried create a new one (of 120GB size).

However, Disk Utility refuses to let me create a new partition larger than the previous one - 50GB

How can I create such large partition?

I also see that Disk Utility specifies a minimum size now for the container of 451GB.

How can I resolve this issue? Please help!
(I upgraded to Catalina OS, thinking it might help, but it behaves the same).


texts: How can I detect which application was started most recently?

texts:
I have two utility applications.  I would like to detect which of these was run most recently.  My initial idea was to use stat to check the access timestamp on the application files and then compare:

mac:~ user$ stat -qf '%a %N' '/Applications/my-app1.app' '/Applications/my-app2.app' | sort -nr | head -n1 | cut -d ' ' -f2-
/Applications/my-app2.app
mac:~ user$

However this is insufficient, because there are other reasons these apps are being accessed - I assume by the backup system I am using.

Are there any system logs that I can examine to determine which of these apps was started most recently?


texts: Numbers: how to search only within a selected range?

texts: I have a very big table, and searching for a string can take a few seconds. However, I only want to search in a particular column. Even when a column is selected, Numbers searches the entire table. How can I constrain the search to the selected column?


texts: Can different Apple ID co-exist for iTunes and iCloud backup?

texts: If I register and actually sign with an unique Apple ID  on iTunes and main account, on iPhone, in order to use different accounts between iTunes and main Apple identity (without having iTunes available on my PC), how should I change the account without losing backed-up data?


texts: New Terminal At Folder service in El Capitan doesn't use my Terminal profile settings

texts: I have my Terminal preferences set to use the "Pro" profile. When I launch a Terminal session from the dock, it uses the "Pro" profile (black background). However when I launch a Terminal session from "Services -> New Terminal at Folder" in Finder, it uses the "Basic" profile (white background). How can I set it to always use the "Pro" profile?


texts: iOS app for marking businesses on a personalized map

texts:
I need an app for iPhone (iOS 8) that would:

allow me to save places on a map and group them by categories (e.g. restaurants, bars, clubs, ...)
be more useful if I could change the name of the locations and add some comments to remember details of the place
filter by categories and geolocation (e.g. to see only restaurants or only bars that are close to me)


texts:
I have multiples iOS devices - a 64 GB iPhone 6 Plus, a 128 GB iPhone 6 and a 128 iPhone 6 Plus.
I want to combine all the data on all these phones into a single iPhone.

By data, i mean Photos, Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Notes, Wallet, iBooks. I have iCloud Sync turned ON, but the data exceeds 5 GB (obviously), so I want to know if there is a way of doing so without the Cloud or via the Internet. Maybe iTunes can help me somehow. I regularly backup my Photos to Microsoft OneDrive and Google Photos, but i doubt if they are the originals as i had captured. Especially, the panorama, hyperlapses and slowmotion videos.

I am also willing to buy a new 256 GB iPhone 7/Plus (if disk space is an issue), but i would prefer to combine the data into an existing device, assuming free space is available or not an issue, how can i achieve that goal?


texts: I successfully installed Chrome on my Mac. However, when I'm trying to start it the browser icon just bounces in the dock once and disappears. Reinstalling, rebooting Mac and other options found on forums didn't help at all. How to fix this problem?


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro 15 inch, 2014 model, with 2 GPUs: Intel and NVIDIA 750M.

Last Monday I turned it on and I noticed that the screen is white as you can see in the picture.

The problem is that when I keep the Mac turned on for some time (>2 hours) the screen goes back to normal without white edges.

When I turn it off and keep it turned off for a while, then turn it on again it becomes white again and I must wait >2 hours so I can see my screen without this whiting effect.


texts: IMac Pro won't recognize my analog audio jack headphones. Help?

texts:
I have a probleme with my iMac, it won't recognise the jack headphones when I plug it in.
When plug-in, in system and preferences, I'm not able to see the jack output.

have tried the folowing method however it doesn't work.

The only technique that works for me is to reset NVRAM or PRAM on startup

However, if my iMac go in sleep mode the bug comes back.

Any one has a solution that works along time?
Commande line to reset NVRAM or PRAM? App that can correct this issue?
Manip?

Here is my iMac :

I had this bug since Mavericks, help please !!!!

DCPIManager

I have installed it however, what do i have to perform here?
Cf screens with jack headphone connected.

Thanks

Thanks a lot for your help :)

New tests after NVRAM reset -> I can here sound from my headphones

Here are new screenshots

I can't see any difference on DPCIManager when headphones works !!!

When I put the iMac on sleep and re-launch my session, headphones stop working...
I went on DPCIManager, I have exactly the same screens as above.
Let me know what I can do to give you more informations.
Thanks again for your help, very appreciate it

------------------------

NEW tests.

I have installed Clover and did exactly what you said (checked everything, EFI > EFI > CLOVER > config.plist (resetHDA was already checked))
I have restart the computer (without PRAM reset) I have sound on my headphones !!!!!
However, when I go back to sleep mode & start a new session, headphones are still not working...

I went back on CLOVER -> devices tab, here is what I can see:

Did I have missed something? Do I need to update ResetHDA?

Thanks


texts: What is postgres and why is it running on my system?

texts:
Upon every login to my computer, I notice in Activity Monitor I have several instances of a process called "postgres" running, under the user "postgres".

What is this, and why does it launch every time I log in?

From what I gathered, it is an SQL server that is built into Unix systems. But that is as far as I got.

Any insight would be much appreciated.

Edit: AHA! It appeared after I installed Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve. When it installs the CUDA package, it also installs the PostgreSQL server. Interesting.


texts: I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 6.0.1. Whenever I resume the phone from idle, I see "LTE" quickly change to the wifi icon in the status bar. This makes me believe that wifi is off when the phone is idle. Is this also true when I have Pandora playing music and I power off the screen? I have a limited data plan and would like wifi to be on when the screen is off.


texts: Move some free space to Macintosh HD (Startup Disk)

texts: On my mac hard disk, Macintosh HD (Startup Disk) is almost full, I need to increase the size of Macintosh merging some free space from my another partition. But I tried all possible ways, free space always merged to same partition, not to Macintosh HD.


texts: Why were my notes deleted when I permanently deleted emails on gmail site

texts: Why were my notes deleted when I permanently deleted my emails from gmail account.  Can I get my notes recovered? My notes on Apple phone were lynced to Mac I am told.? Can you help


texts:
I want to exclude some firewall notices and certain benign error messages from the system logs.

They occur every few seconds and make it hard to find real problems, especially when the files get rotated away.

man syslog.conf does not mention string pattern matching like it does on Linux. Can Apple's daemon do it? Are there other options?


texts: Is there a way to shut down, restart or log off without seeing the popup?

texts:
I would like to know if there is a way to delete the popup shown when you are trying to shut down, restart or log off your Mac with version OS X 10.9 - What I want is that when I click on one of these buttons, the computer makes that action without asking for a confirmation and the countdown of 1 minute.

I know you can use Alt+Shut down/Restart/Log off but I would like to know if there is a direct way to deactivate that popup via Terminal or something else.


texts: How do I fix all menus and dialogs randomly becoming blank

texts:
Menu bar

Right click context menu in Chrome for example - (Note: the issue is not limited to chrome. it affects the context menu in every app)

Either the logout or shut down dialog - I can't tell

This happens randomly between once a month and once a week. The only way out is a hard reboot.

It would be nice to figure out how to permanently fix it.

macOS High Sierra
10.13.6
Apple MacBook Pro "Core i7" 2.7 13" Touch/2018


texts: How can I extract the *.icns from the Get Info dialog?

texts:
Previously, I've changed the icon of an application before by manually replacing the icon file .icns located in loremipsum.app/Contents/Resources/loremipsum.icns.

This time, I've downloaded some beautiful icons which are folders with the needed icon and not simple .icns files.

How can I get access of the the *.icns file?


texts: iPhone reports 2 Hotspot connections even though only one of my devices is connected

texts:
I connected to an iPhone Hotspot with a MacBook. I got internet access. Within 15-sec, the iPhone said there was a second Hotspot connection. I toggled Hotspot, reconnected, and still 2 connections. Finally, I turned off Hotspot, changed password, and re-connected the MacBook. A second connection did not happen.

My initial password was not easy to guess p:Fucrj346Q!. I've never been in this location before. What could have caused the iPhone to report having 2 connections initially?

note: I'm at a hospital where there is an enormous number of magnetic / electrical / radioactive based monitoring equipment.


texts: What are some effective ways to save power when using my MacBook Pro?

texts:
I have an Early 2011 MacBook Pro (Core i7, 8GB RAM) with Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.2).

What are some effective ways to save power? I am looking to maximise use of the battery - from a full charge - on long plane/train trips. Here are the ways I'm aware of:

Turning off WiFi.
Turning off Bluetooth.
Reducing the screen brightness.

Is there anything else significant I'm missing? Can I easily check what processes/programs might be sucking power in order to kill them?

Also, if I need/want to use the WiFi (for example, I'm on a flight with WiFi service), is there a way to minimise its power consumption?

Note: I'm happy to broaden the question to other models of MacBook/versions of OS X if necessary, since I'm sure the answers will be similar.


texts: Unable to redeem app codes with Configurator

texts:
Configurator 1.4.2 (370). OS X 10.9

I have 20 iPads that I'm managing with Configurator.  I have purchased 20 licenses each for two apps through the Volume Purchase Program.  I have Prepared tablets with no trouble.  On the Supervise panel I assign the paid app to the devices and apply.  19/20 ipads complete successfully.

One iPad completes with an error for both apps: Unable to redeem code for "App Name". There are no codes left to redeem.

Looking at the licenses for each app it clearly says there is one remaining code available.


texts:
How would I do this?

I have attempted double clicking on it (obviously) and I get an error of it saying that its not recognized.

My second though was using Disk Utility (the app) to try and change it from an img to an iso. The same error appeared saying that it was not recognized.

My last idea was to do some research on mounting from the terminal. The command that I used was

mount -o loop userdata.img /mnt/testcache

The result of that was:

mount: You must specify a filesystem type with -t.

After that I just ran out of idea and ran out of search queries to try.


texts: Can I connect a projector with HDMI to my Mac Pro's DVI connector using an adapter?

texts:
I am interested in purchasing a projector that has native resolution of 1024x768.
The projector has HDMI connector and VGA connector. I want to connect it to my Mac Pro computer which has only DVI connectors.

Can I simply connect a DVI cable to my Mac and then attach this cable to the projector with a DVI/HDMI adapter?

Will this maintain high quality video?


texts: How to configure a route on an iMac's Wi-Fi interface?

texts:
I am terrible at network routing.
I have an old Squeezebox SB3, whose Wi-Fi card failed some years ago. I removed the WI-Fi card, and it has gathered dust for a while. I am trying to resurrect it.
It no longer responds to the remote control. But you need to use the remote control to reset it. The remote seems to work (I pointed the IR diode at an Android phone's camera and I can see light when I press any of the buttons).
Because it is not at the factory defaults I cannot use Net::UDAP.
So the current setup is:
SB3 connected via an ethernet cable to one of the ports on my cable modem.
iMac connected to the same cable modem via Wi-Fi on 192.168.1.0/24.
Logitech Media Server (LMS) is running on the iMac and is happy to bind to any IP address that is configured on the iMac.
tcpdump tells me the SB3 is sending out packets like this periodically.
20:37:30.123202 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.10.1 (Broadcast) tell 192.168.10.10, length 46

From that I deduce the SB3 uses 192.168.10.10 as its ethernet IP address and expects to find LMS running on 192.168.10.1:9000. I used ifconfig to add 192.168.10.1 to en1 (see below), and I can open a web browser on the iMac and load LMS on 192.168.10.1:9000. I can also open 192.168.10.1:9000 on a web browser on one of the household smart phones that are running on 192.168.1.0/24.
But the SB3 is not seen by LMS running on the iMac and the SB3 cannot find LMS either.
bash-3.2# ifconfig en1
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=400<CHANNEL_IO>
    ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
    inet6 fe80::144f:39e8:91fa:1f29%en1 prefixlen 64 secured scopeid 0x4
    inet 192.168.1.23 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
    inet 192.168.10.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.10.255
    nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
    media: autoselect
    status: active

on the cable modem I added a route
192.168.10.0/24 IP_BR_LAN 192.168.1.23 AUTO STATIC

I suppose I have a routing problem, and I don't know which routes to set up on which device (iMac or cable modem).


texts: I'm new to macports. I want to install a certain port called gimp-gap, but first I have to install 'xz'. But what does this port actually do?


texts:
So my child ran out of their alloted time on the computer today, so I went and gave them 4 more hours.  This is the parental controls where you select how much time to add, and you add your own (administrator) user name and password.

However, a couple hours later I was surprised to see that my child had logged out, because it had told them they were out of time.   But then somehow even though they had logged out, the main login window still showed them logged in, so I reboot the computer.

However this evening I was going to give them 15 minutes of time to print something, but after I enter my credentials, it no sooner has logged them in, then the window does the 3 dimensional "user switching" by itself, and now they are at the login window, and it is telling them they can log in again tomorrow.  I try to add 15 minutes again, and it does the same thing.  So I try 30 minutes, and they are logged in for about a minute and it logs them out again.

Why can't I give my kid more time on the computer?  They weren't trying to login during bedtime hours, they had only exceeded their weekend limit of 2 hours.


texts: How accurate is the location detection on the iPhone's Find My iPhone app

texts:
How accurate is the GPS on the iPhone's Find My iPhone app?

I used Find My iPhone app to track a friend. The first 3 stops were dead on but when it refreshed it showed them to be several streets over from actual location. What could cause that?


texts: Only keep the escape key on touch bar keyboard

texts: I would like to remove all the keys on the touch bar except the escape key.


texts: How to get rid of underlines under URLs in Textmate 2?

texts:
I decided to try Textmate 2 alpha, since I used to use TM 1.5 for years.

I got it up and running, but no matter which theme I use, all URLs (as in href and src) are underlined in my HTML documents, which is very distracting to me.

I can't find any setting causing this... but how do I set this to off?


texts:
The trackpad on my 15" 2014 Macbook Pro has some play.

When hovering with two fingers - say, when not scrolling in a page, but ready to - I can feel it shift 1-2mm vertically. Not enough for a "click," but enough so that it's distracting.

(Yes, I realize how annoying it must be to hear someone complain about 1-2mm, but I use this thing 12 hours a day and it's freaking annoying. Also, it's a $3700+ machine, so I expect as close to perfection as possible.)

Suggestions? This is my second Retina model (fifth counting warranty replacements) and the first time I've noticed this particular problem.

Has anyone else seen this? Is it expected wear-and-tear (I've had this machine for a few months now)? I know if I take it in to the Apple store and they agree that there is a problem, it'll be a top case replacement. They typically keep the same SSD sticks when they do that, but I still back everything up, which takes some time, as does the restore, and I'm not looking forward to (once again) being without my machine for a week. I can't do my job without this thing, and usually wind up buying $$$ another one to use while it's out. Which is not fun.


texts: How do I upgrade my openssl? A symlink isn't working for /usr/local/bin/OpenSSL

texts:
I'm having trouble updating my version of openssl so I can get Fastlane working.

Can anyone explain where OpenSSL should be, and how different environments hook into it?

MACOS:~ lamont$ openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.8zh 14 Jan 2016
MACOS:~ lamont$ ruby -ropenssl -e 'puts OpenSSL::OPENSSL_VERSION'
OpenSSL 1.0.2k  26 Jan 2017
MACOS:~ lamont$ rm /usr/local/bin/openssl
rm: /usr/local/bin/openssl: No such file or directory
MACOS:~ lamont$ cd /usr/local/Cellar/openssl
MACOS:openssl lamont$ ls
1.0.2k
MACOS:openssl lamont$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2k/bin/openssl /usr/local/bin/openssl
Password:
MACOS:openssl lamont$ which openssl
/usr/local/bin/openssl
MACOS:openssl lamont$ openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.8zh 14 Jan 2016
MACOS:openssl lamont$


texts: iCloud storage full: "Not Enough Storage". Backups exceed 5GB

texts:
Just like everyone else, I get the notification that my iCloud is full and no backup can be made. iOS gives me the suggestion to upgrade my storage on my iCloud account. Because I only want to store my settings, phone numbers and other 'light' stuff, I see no reason to upgrade. I think a few gigabytes should be more than plenty to backup my device(s).

What is taking all the space on my iCloud?

First I checked on my Mac - OS X Mavericks

On OS X I have checked the following in 'System Preferences' -> 'iCloud':

Backup 4.44 GB
Documents 550.7 MB
Mail 5 MB

Okay, my major storage exists of the type 'Backup'. I Guess these are the backups from my iPad and iPhone, but System prefs gives me no further clue. Lets look at my iPhone

I got out my iPhone - iOS 8.4

I go to 'Settings' -> 'iCloud':

iCloud Drive ON
Photos ON

iCloud Photo Library OFF
My Photo Stream OFF
iCloud Photo Sharing ON

Mail OFF
Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Safari, Notes, Passbook ON
Backup, Keychain, Find My iPhone ON

Then I go to 'Settings' -> 'iCloud' -> 'Storage':

Total storage 5.0 GB
Available 15.9 MB

I go to 'Settings' -> 'iCloud' -> 'Storage' -> 'Manage Storage':

  LAST BACKUP FAILED

  An additional 5 GB of storage is required. To
  continue backing up this iPhone do one of the following:

  Change your backup options
  Delete some data
  Buy more storage

Also, it gives me the following use of my data:

Backups:

iPhone backup of 4.3 GB
iPad backup of 137.4 MB

Documents & Data:

Some documents with a total of 534.6 MB

Okay, so all my storage goes to 'Backups'. Lets select the iPhone backup (and here is where I get lost...)

'Settings' -> 'iCloud' -> 'Storage' -> 'Manage Storage' -> 'iPhone Backup':

  BACKUP OPTIONS

  Choose the data you want to back up.
  An additional 5.0GB is required to back up
  this iPhone

Next Backup Size 5.0 GB ⚠

Photo Library 2.3 GB OFF
WhatsApp 550 MB OFF
Keynote 238 MB OFF

There is no space requiring stuff to backup and still is it taking 5.0GB... What does my phone want to backup that takes 5.0 GB of space? Is there a way to visualise this? I only want to backup some settings and contacts, no major stuff...

How can I backup my stuff with the default 5 GB?


texts: Why does my MacBook Air's screen look odd for about 20-30 seconds after the battery burned out and I turn it back on?

texts:
I don't know if this is normal, but about 10 minutes ago my MacBook Air shut down. I plugged it in and pressed the power button and my screen looked odd for about 20-30 seconds. I decided to take a picture of it because it does this every time my battery dies and I plug it in, so here it is:

See how it looks? I don't know why it's doing this. Does anyone know what this is?
Edit (to @OldPro)
Here's a picture of how the screen normally looks:


texts: Shortcut for conditional formatting in Excel 2011 in OS X

texts: How do I create a keyboard shortcut for conditional formatting for Excel 2011 in OS X? I am unable to find any such shortcut.


texts: Can my files be deleted if I used a beta OS X version?

texts:
I have downloaded OS X Yosemite beta version and I want to install it but I want to ask if my files - for any reason - can be deleted if I am running a beta version ??

P.S: Please don't advice me to backup my data.


texts:
I am running a flutter application build from the command line. I also have an ios simulator running.
I keep getting an error saying "spotlight has quit unexpectedly". Has anyone seen this issue before?
Process:               Spotlight [93380]
Path:                  /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes/iOS.simruntime/Contents/Resources/RuntimeRoot/Applications/Spotlight.app/Spotlight
Identifier:            Spotlight
Version:               1.0 (1)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        launchd_sim [93247]
Responsible:           SimulatorTrampoline [93237]
User ID:               503

Date/Time:             2020-12-07 13:17:20.865 -0600
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.15.7 (19H2)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        7314686F-26C9-E59B-2317-7F5D00F51293

Sleep/Wake UUID:       8C755EE1-CA06-41A4-A036-2AE52E46A9EE

Time Awake Since Boot: 1200000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       3200 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGKILL)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Reason:    Namespace SPRINGBOARD, Code 0x8badf00d


texts:
I have a 2009 MacBook showing world with exclamation when attempting recovery.

It would not start using regular startup.


texts: Lacie Big 5 10tb to be used as external hard drive but want security so: ZFS Raidz?

texts:
I've just bought the Lacie Big 5 10th and I want to use it as an external hard drive for my files. I was thinking of making it raid1 but then I heard about ZFS and Raidz. so that I can easily change/upgrade individual drives as time goes on

What matters to me is at least 5tb but a real safety for my files. Anybody can help me figure out what I need and how to do it?

thanks!


texts: How to copy-paste in Finder when there's no right-click space?

texts:
I'd be very surprised if this doesn't trouble anyone else.

Sometimes I want to paste a copied file in a Finder window, but there is just no "empty" space for me to right-click on and hit 'Paste item', as right-clicking anywhere on this window will open the right-click context menu for a file/folder.

Usually, I just resize the window till I can find some empty space below all the files/folders for me to right-click on, but sometimes (as in my screenshot below) there are way too many files/folders for to resize the finder window up to that point.

Basically:

How can I be able to right-click somewhere (to know exactly where I'm pasting) and hit 'Paste Item'?

As you can tell, I am currently using the column view, and hope there is a solution in this view.
I also do not just want to hit Cmd+V because it's hard to tell which is the target directory when I have a folder open in the column-view.


texts: For some reason, my gamepad has wrong mappings, and I need a software to remap the joystick. Is there any free tool for that? Or a workaround maybe?


texts: My find my iphone was being used, not by myself. It could be my ex. Is there a way to see where that person used the find my iphone to figure out where i am? Maybe narrow it down to a certain State that someone had logged into, to use the find my iphone locator


texts: How to install WhatsApp on an iPad 4 without 3G?

texts: I own an iPad 4 without 3G (functioning only Wi-Fi) running iOS 7. How can I install WhatsApp on this iPad?


texts: How can I monitor when audio is sent to an output device?

texts:
I want my mac to take an action (pause my music) when a sound is heard on a particular output device. When the sound stops, I want another action to occur.
How can I monitor the output device for sound signal?


texts: Bought a brand new SSD Samsung 850 evo, plugged in, restart macbook, hold option, and no disk utility screen

texts:
So I bought Samsung 850 EVO, 250GB, and plugged it into my Macbook (Mid-2010, Macbook 7.1). I installed it without mounting screws, because I don't have screwdriver to unscrew the ones from the old HDD (Toshiba, 256GB). I have on a USB thumb drive (16GB) installation of El Capitan, made using DiskMaker 5. Surprisingly, when I restarted the laptop and immediately hold the Option key, nothing happens except the blue screen and a cursor on it. There is no recovery screen or anything (that was actually supposed to happen). I then replaced the SSD with my old HDD and everything works fine as before. Anyone knows what might be the problem? I will go and buy the adequate screwdriver, but I don't know which one though. WHen I try manual installation through terminal I get this message at the end of the process:

Couldn't mount dmg /Volumes/Install OS X El Capitan/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg (error code 112)Mount of outer dmg failed.


texts: Mac Contacts syncs it's info TO iCloud -- but it won't GATHER info FROM iCloud

texts:
So my iPhone contacts are all syncing to iCloud, and the contacts on my Mac are syncing to iCloud -- but I can't get my contacts from my iPhone TO my Mac via iCloud. It's like a one-way relationship. I've unchecked and rechecked everything, trying to re-sync, but my Mac just refuses to update and add those iCloud contacts to my Mac. It's like someone who talks all day, but refuses to listen to anyone.
Incidentally, if I make a contact change on my Mac, such as updating my user picture, the picture changes on the iPhone contact. So it's really just an unhealthy relationship they have.


texts: APFS partition disappeared after creating hybrid MBR


texts: Can HomePod be controlled using anything other than Siri?

texts: Siri seems to be targeted as the primary method to interact with HomePod other than some rudimentary touch controls that it has. Are there any other ways to interact with it? I'm specifically hoping for some sort of remote control app for iOS. I don't have a particularly good track record with Siri playing the correct song when I ask her to on my iPhone, partly because my music collection contains stuff in many languages; so I prefer to choose the right track manually from a list. I'm aware of the option to AirPlay to it, but I'd prefer the functionality the iTunes Remote iOS app offers: remote-controlling the device through a graphical UI. Any chance for that on HomePod?


texts: Closing iPhone SE cover does not lock the phone

texts:
I have an iPhone SE with a Decoded Case.

With my Samsung I was used to just close the case and it would automatically lock the screen. How do I turn on this feature on my iPhone?


texts: Difference between variable and pipe to shell in applescript

texts:
In answering this question I wrote this script:

global presenterNotes
tell application "Keynote"
    activate
    open (choose file)
    tell front document
        set presenterNotes to presenter notes of every slide as text
            set the clipboard to presenterNotes
        do shell script "pbpaste > ~/keynote-notes.txt"
    end tell
    quit application "Keynote" end tell

My question is: in the instance above when I replace the "shell script" statement with the statement below why does this statement work:

tell application "TextEdit"
        activate
        make new document
        set text of front document to presenterNotes
        quit application "TextEdit"
    end tell

Example 1: but this one does not:

tell application "TextEdit"
        activate
        make new document with data presenterNotes as text

Example 2: nor does:

make new document with presenterNotes

I know there are other ways to make it work like copy to clipboard and then issue a command+c.

I would like to understand why the global variable is not being transferred to the textEdit document, in particular in Example 1 above, as applescript does not throw an error.


texts: How to Permanently Delete Photos from iPhone

texts: I have so many photos on the iPhone. And my iPhone's internal space is not enough now.


texts:
please advise if there is a possibility to view list of wifi connections an Iphone has used in few months time

Also advise if any possibility to check deleted call history of calls made through whatsapp and facetime on iphone


texts: I'm running Mountain Lion, and my question is how to "attach" an icon to an extension? For example, I want all .adm files has an icon like on the picture below. Unfortunately all I can is just attach an icon to proper file, not to all files that has such extension. Thus I want .adm extension has their own icon. .adm is opening in TextEdit, so please don't suggest me to open it in right app. Thank you in advance!


texts: Applications Folder on Macintosh HD Shows Empty

texts: Before attempting to migrate data from my Time Machine, I looked in to see if my Adobe applications and others were there to transfer.  The folder is empty.  Is this normal?  Thanks.


texts: Read from MS Duo memory sticks with iPad 4 (Lightning connector)

texts:
I have an iPad retina and would like to load data from a MS Duo memory card (the proprietary format for Sony digital cameras). What are my options?
Unfortunately, using the USB port of the digital camera is not an option as my camera does not have one.

EDIT
According to several forums, using a USB memory card reader with the camera connection kit used to work, but recent CCKs apparently do not supply the necessary power for USB memory card readers anymore, so a normal reader might not work.


texts: Manually managed media from Mac does not have proper metadata on ios

texts:
I'm trying to copy music from macOS 10.15.7 Catalina to ipadOS 14. This is the first time I've had to manage media sync since iTunes has been deprecated and is it just me or is the new sync completely broken!
The mac's music library is a newly created one and wasn't upgraded from itunes and the ipad is brand new. All the metadata in the mac's music application appears correctly.
In the finder set ipad to "Manually Manage Music...". Drag in a couple of folders from the music library. Checking the music app on the ipad only shows 1 artist out of about 5. Albums show as individual songs and song names display the genre. Broken.
Wipe all the Manually Managed Music. Turn off Manually Manage Music. Turn on Sync Music to iPad and sync selected artists, albums, etc...
Select a few playlists and sync. Metadata on ipad now appears OK. But now, there only 1 list browser in the finders music sync (it used to have all 4 lists (artist, album, genre and playlist on the 1 view). Checking a genre to sync, say "rock", then going to the album or artist list doesn't have all the rock artists and albums checked. Broken.
So It seams that syncing via the finder is broken.
Open the Music Application on the Mac. The iPad appears in the list. Drag some songs from the son list to the iPad. It syncs. Check the iPad. The artists are there, the albums are there, the songs display the genre for the title. Broken.
How are you meant to reliably sync music now?


texts: Zero-width characters embedded in phone number whenever they are copied from the macOS address book

texts:
Whenever I use Contacts.app to fill out a form on a website, I have a problem with any phone number field.

Contacts.app adds unicode "left-to-right override" (U+202D codepoint: E2 80 AD in UTF-8 contexts, 20 2D in UTF-16 contexts) before the first digit, and "pop directional formatting" (U+202C codepoint: E2 80 AC in UTF-8 contexts, 20 2C in UTF-16 contexts) after the last digit. Many websites get upset by this, because those are not recognised as valid phone number digits. As they are zero-width symbols, the first few times I saw this problem I didn't even understand what was going wrong.

Note that this still happens if I turn off JavaScript or use a desktop text editor like TextWrangler (TextWrangler is how I originally found out which zero-width symbols were being inserted); as it happens, I only care about websites because websites are the only thing which validates that phone numbers match a pattern such as the regex [0-9()+\s]*

This happens with all phone numbers in Contacts, regardless of whose (some are formatted as UK, some as USA, some as German).

Method: open Contacts.app, select any person, double (or triple) click on a phone number to select all of it, ⌘C-⌘V to copy-paste; if I paste into an app which shows non-printable characters like TextWrangler then I can see their existence, if I paste into a web browser it's present but zero-width, as arrow keys 'stick' at those positions and the delete key does in fact remove them.

It happens as described in both Safari and Chrome. In Firefox, it behaved slightly differently, and seemed to automatically delete the extra characters as soon as I pass through them with my arrow keys (?!).

How do I stop Contacts.app from adding these unicode symbols?


texts: Automatically Save Attachments in Mail.app in 10.8 Mountain Lion

texts:
I am trying to automatically save all email sent to one address (let's call it test@example.com) to this folder /Users/luomat/Dropbox/Incoming/e2w/ (where /Users/luomat = $HOME).

Here is the rule that I am using in Mail.app:

I have setup a special email address for this purpose, and am fetching it via POP3 from Gmail. The message is being colored Red and marked as read, but the AppleScript does not seem to be working.

I have tried two "Save Mail" AppleScript attachments that I found online, but neither of them work.

(You can find them at  http://share.luo.ma/temp/mail-app-applescript/ if you want to see them.)

I am wondering if perhaps Sandboxing rules in Mail.app 10.8 are preventing this from working, or if I am just doing it wrong. I'm not sure how to troubleshoot AppleScript from Mail.app rules, and I don't really know AppleScript, I've just edited those two scripts I found online to fit what I want to do.

Here's what I am trying to accomplish (Ideally):

If the email is plain text, just save the message to /Users/luomat/Dropbox/Incoming/e2w/ using something like "Subject Line from email address.txt"
If the email has attachments, create a folder in "/Users/luomat/Dropbox/Incoming/e2w/" using the Subject of the email as the folder name, and then save the body of the email as text in that folder as "body.txt" and save the attachments as whatever they were originally called.

Note: after this AppleScript the /Users/luomat/Dropbox/Incoming/e2w/ will be automatically processed and files will be moved out of that folder using Hazel, so I don't really need to worry about filename collisions.


texts: Automatically forward incoming SMS messages to email

texts: How can I set up my iPhone 6 to automatically forward incoming SMS messages to my email address (or addresses)?  Is it possible to restrict this automatic  forwarding to a particular set of senders, e.g., automatically forward only SMS messages from Bob and Charlie?


texts: USB Devices not mounting in Mac OS 11.1 Big Sur

texts:
I can't get USB devices to mount to my MacBook Pro (mid ‘14) unless they are plugged in at the time it boots. Even then the device can't be re-mounted after being removed. I've tried this with a flash drive, an external hard drive, and an SD card all with the same results.
I've also tried with and without a USB hub. Nothing appears on the desktop, nothing appears in Disk Utility, and nothing is showing up in System Profiler.
I had initially thought the issue was with the diskarbitrationd daemon, but that appears to be running
sudo launchctl list | grep diskarbitrationd
returns 86    0    com.apple.diskpaced, and ps aux | grep diskarbitrationd returns an entry for /usr/libexec/diskarbitrationd running as root...
At this point I'm not sure what the issue is, so any help is appreciated.
Obviously rebooting with devices connected is a workaround, but not a great one.
FWIW I've tried a PRAM reset and a SMC reset just in case, to no avail. All thoughts are welcome!


texts: GotoMeeting says Microphone is Off though it is enabled in Sound

texts:
The Sound app says that my BH20 Headset is connected and we can see a (low) level registering:

However the Google Meetup says the Microphone is off:

What am I missing on the Google Meetup settings?
Update In a comment @Tetsujin has pointed the way to the cause:

Check System Prefs > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Microphone.

And in fact the Google Meet is not there - so he is correct:

I saw from this reference that it should be enabled by enabling
Chrome    But Chrome is already enabled ..

So now I do not know how to proceed to get the microphone acccess..


texts:
Hello yesterday someone said they called me on FaceTime at 12.38
I did not see the incoming call and I cannot see the missed call/call answered in the log.
After that they tried to call again and it worked.
Why wouldn’t show the notification nor show the incoming call?
The person has the proof they called and said it was ringing for a while.
After that I received the miss call and saw all incoming calls


texts: concatenate text files in multiple folders

texts: I have hundreds of folders with a few text files in each folder.  I'm trying to concatenate the files of each folder into a single text file.  One file for each folder.    Ideally, the concatenated files would be saved to another location.


texts: Can view email in outlook but not on iPhone, Mime-attachment

texts:
Hi can anyone tell me why emails originating from one company cannot be viewed on our companies iPhones / iPads but can be viewed in Outlook it shows the following screen:

In Outlook the message body will appear just fine.

Hope somebody can help.


texts: Is there an iOS lifecycle policy - i.e. which older devices a new iOS release supports?

texts:
This question gives useful information on iOS 4.3 support. However is there a publicly available policy for future iOS versions on which devices they will support? For example, do they always support two previous generations of hardware, or does it vary according to each release?

If there is no official policy, what does the trend seem to be?


texts: An Applescript that batch-copies the Song tag to the Movement tag

texts:
I have a rather large iTunes library (~300GB) that is mainly classical music. I really like the Work and Movement format, but sadly it is not practical to manually update my metadata to the Work and Movement format. Almost all of the extisting song tags are in the following format:

Telemann - Concerto in E minor: I. Andante
II. Allegro
III. Largo
IV. Allegro
etc.

A script that could automate updating the tagging system would look like the following.

On all selected songs, copy the Song tag to the Movement tag
Delete the roman numeral, period and space from the front of the Movement tag. Or, on the format where the entire work name in included in the Song tag, delete that.

Any help or pointers for actually implementing this script would be very helpful. I have looked at and used Doug's Work and Movement scripts, but they don't cover the matching process that would be needed to delete the roman numerals from the start.

EDIT

It has become apparent that many of the tags are not in the above format, but in a format like below:

Serenade for strings in C major, Op. 48 - I. Allegro
Serenade for strings in C major, Op. 48 - II. Adagio
Serenade for strings in C major, Op. 48 - III. Allegro moderato
etc.

OR in the same format as above except using arabic numerals in the place of the roman numerals.

The script should result in the "Movement" tags having the following outputs:

Allegro
Adagio
Allegro moderato

The idea is I would get the first part of this ("Serenade for strings in C major, Op. 48") and copy it to the "work" tag, which I have already implemented, then get the remaining text, remove the movement numbers, and assign it to the Movement tag. Any help on implementing a system that would do this would be appreciated.

Here is the script in its current form. It is based on Doug's Name to Work script.

tell application "iTunes"
    set sel to selection of front browser window
    if sel is {} then
        try
            display dialog "Nothing is selected…" buttons {"Quit"} with icon 0
        end try
        return
    end if

    set c to (count of sel)
    set songName to (get name of item 1 of sel)

    set userOptions to display dialog "Edit for Work name and then click OK." default answer songName --prompt for work name

    repeat with i from 1 to c --set the movement numbers
        set thisTrack to item i of sel
        try
            set work of thisTrack to text returned of userOptions
            set movement number of thisTrack to i
            set movement count of thisTrack to c
            set movement of thisTrack to my delRomNum(name of thisTrack) -- copy movement text from song name and delete roman numerals
        end try
    end repeat

end tell

on delRomNum(t) -- the perl command search and delete any roman numeral (must be a word followed by the period and a space character)
    do shell script "/usr/bin/perl -pe 's/\\b[IVXLCDM]+\\b. //g' <<< " & quoted form of t
end delRomNum


texts: How can I make Spotlight preview column always visible?

texts:
In previous versions of macOS, Spotlight would show two columns, one with results and the other with a preview of the selected result.
In macOS Big Sur Spotlight's default view is one column. In order for me to see the right hand column I have to click the chevron or press return. How can I make this two-column view default, like it was in previous releases?


texts: Track last known location of iPad mini (2) without "Find My Phone"

texts:
I recently seem to have lost my iPad mini. I had expected Apple to have some functionality for lost devices enabled by default, but I notice that I cannot use Find My Phone via the iCloud interface, as I had not enabled the service myself.

I am wondering whether I could somehow retrieve my GPS location history, though, so I can at least find out in what country I have lost it (I was travelling form Switzerland to Germany, and if my iPad made it with me to Germany, it should have reconnected to the network there). This used to be possible with Android devices over Google Latitude. Is it somehow possible for Apple devices?

Also, is there any way I can block my iPad? Or any other location/blocking functionality which I can use at this point?


texts: How to reformat a hard drive previously used for Time Machine

texts: Previously I had backed up my Mac files on my old external hard drive on time machine. This made the hard drive only visible and usable by Time Machine. How would I reformat the drive so it goes back to FAT32 or something usable like a normal hard drive? The hard drive is not being recognised or detected by disk utility either.


texts: How does one import an old Exchange email archive into Apple Mail?

texts: I have an archive of old emails from a former project that I worked on. On that project, I was given my own Exchange email address and subsequently have a ton of emails for which I created an archive. That old Exchange address and account are closed. How can I import all the emails into Apple Mail or Gmail?


texts: Applescript app to shut down Mathematica at a specific time of day

texts:
I have the following workflow that I need to execute on a daily basis for a period of days:

The computers start at a specified time, Mathematica and a specific Mathematica notebook launch and evaluate. Then I need to quit Mathematica programmatically and let the relevant schedules shut down the computers. I've worked out everything here except the highlighted step to quit Mathematica with an Applescript application.

To start with I created a simple application using the
Applescript Editor:

tell application "Mathematica" to quit

This will shut down Mathematica if the open notebook has been saved which the notebook does itself. Now I need to add a timer to the Applescript application.

An earlier question Automator workflow or AppleScript to close Safari after a period of time does something similar that I hoped to adapt to my needs.  It shows the following code:

global quit_after, check_every

set quit_after to 2700
set check_every to 10
set minute to quit_after / 60

display dialog "Check is performed every " & check_every & " seconds. Things will be quit after " & minute & " minutesof system inactivity."

on reopen
    display dialog "Check is performed every " & check_every & " seconds. Things will be quit after " & minute & " minutes of system inactivity."
end reopen

on idle
    set idletime to do shell script "echo $((`ioreg -c IOHIDSystem | sed -e '/HIDIdleTime/ !{ d' -e 't' -e '}' -e 's/.* = //g' -e 'q'` / 1000000000))"
    if (idletime as integer) > quit_after then
        tell application "System Events"
            if ((name of processes) contains "Safari") then
                tell application "Safari" to quit
            end if
        end tell
    end if
    return check_every
end idle

I don't need the dialog boxes and I want it to close Mathematica after say 15 minutes, so I tried this as a next step towards a solution.

global quit_after, check_every

set quit_after to 900
set check_every to 10
set minute to quit_after / 60

on idle
    set idletime to do shell script "echo $((`ioreg -c IOHIDSystem | sed -e '/HIDIdleTime/ !{ d' -e 't' -e '}' -e 's/.* = //g' -e 'q'` / 1000000000))"
    if (idletime as integer) > quit_after then
        tell application "System Events"
            if ((name of processes) contains "Mathematica") then
                tell application "Mathematica" to quit
            end if
        end tell
    end if
    return check_every
end idle

It doesn't work.

So I have two questions, can anyone suggest:

How to get my modified code to work?
How to alter it so it will shut down Mathematica at a specified time on weekdays only?

The latter would work better for me as I think I'd have fewer conflicts if I shut down Mathematica at a specific time rather than after a certain amount of time has passed.


texts: Can an 2009 iMac have an odd total amount of RAM?

texts:
I have an iMac 20-inch early 2009 model. There is 2 GB of RAM (2 x 1 GB sticks).

Can I upgrade the amount of memory to 3 GB, replacing just one of the two RAM sticks?


texts: Disable DNS assignment with Airport Extreme IPv6 tunnel

texts:
I've got an IPv6 tunnel from Hurricane Electric, configured into one of my Apple Airport Extremes (which is otherwise setup in bridge mode).

That's all fine, except that in the IPv6 Route Advertisement messages the Airport Extreme then insists on advertising itself as a DNS server for the local LAN.

I don't want this, as I've got perfectly good BIND instances on my network performing DNSSEC validation and the Airport's DNS server doesn't do this.

Is there any way to disable that functionality?


texts: What was the original Mac's (1984) development stack?

texts:
What software did original Macintosh developers use and what were common languages used to write that software?

In short, I am wondering what the original development environment was like.


texts: Does leaving LTE on when LTE service is unavailable drain the battery faster?

texts: The iPhone 5-series phones all support LTE but if I only have a contract for 3G service will my iPhone battery drain faster because it's always trying to find an an LTE-capable signal? Can I stop it from even looking for LTE?


texts: How to be notified only once for new Gmail emails?

texts:
I've just moved from Android to iPhone and I'm struggling to configure my Gmail notifications to work in the same way.

On Android, I had it configured so that I didn't receive further notifications until I dismissed the previous one. If there was more than one unread email, the icon would be a multiple-envelope symbol (otherwise it was a single envelope).

In case that wasn't clear, here's a little timeline of events for my Android Gmail app:

Email arrives --> Notification!
Email arrives
Email arrives
<clear notifications>
Email arrives --> Notification!
Email arrives

Using the Gmail app on my iPhone 6, I am notified about every email that arrives. Is there any way to replicate the behaviour I enjoyed on my Android phone?

Looking in the settings on the GMail app, I notice the Notifications section only has two options: All New Emails or None. So I'm not holding out too much hope here...


texts: Problem Installing Windows 7 via Boot Camp

texts:
I've recently created a DIY Fusion drive (240GB SSD & 1TB HDD) using the core storage commands on my mid 2012 MacBook Pro, I've restored from a time machine backup and everything works great. Now I'd like to install bootcamp (Windows 7) on it, but I'm afraid it messes up the Fusion Drive, any Idea on how to do it?

This is what I get when I run diskutil cs list on terminal:

    CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
    |
    +-- Logical Volume Group 5514A5B9-7A26-4F41-96A7-7AD1294DD4B5
        =========================================================
        Name:         Fusion
        Status:       Online
        Size:         1238542315520 B (1.2 TB)
        Free Space:   6454693888 B (6.5 GB)
        |
        +-< Physical Volume 37A1BA39-C697-4FDF-A32E-14F1EB0BA813
        |   ----------------------------------------------------
        |   Index:    0
        |   Disk:     disk0s2
        |   Status:   Online
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Edit: FIXED I've tried to do it via BootCamp, I get to the Windows installer without any problem, I format the BootCamp partition but it still says that I can't install Windows on it (error 0x80300024). How can I fix it?

EDIT: I've installed Windows 7, but when I try to boot from the partition I get a "no bootable device" error

New Question:

What if I just swap the drives and leave them swapped? Does the SSD get slower if put in the DVD caddy? Because if not it is probably the best and easier solution.


texts: Can I bootcamp my mac with only a product key from windows8.1?

texts: I recently got myself a product key and I really wanna bootcamp my mac but I can't find how with only the product key... Please don't tell me I lost €70 on that..?


texts: So Apple A7 is “System on chip or” or “CPU”?

texts:
Very confused, in some websites, they have this line:

iPhone 5s

CPU: Apple A7

other websites saying that:

iPhone 5s
System-on-chip: Apple 7
CPU: 1.3 GHz 64bit dual core

other sources saying that

iPhone 5s
System-on-chip: Apple 7
CPU: 1.3 GHz 64bit dual core Apple 7

in Wiki, it said:

  The Apple A7 is a 64-bit system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc.
  It first appeared in the iPhone 5S, which was introduced on September
  10, 2013. Apple states that it is up to twice as fast and has up to
  twice the graphics power compared to its predecessor, the Apple
  A6. While not the first 64-bit ARM CPU, it is the first to
  ship in a consumer smartphone or tablet computer.

There are 2 sentences:

The Apple A7 is a 64-bit system on a chip (SoC)

&

  While not the first 64-bit ARM CPU

Wiki also said The A7 features an Apple-designed 64-bit 1.3–1.4 GHz ARMv8-A dual-core CPU, called Cyclone

So System on chip is also CPU? very confused

Then other source compares System on chip and CPU, they said "CPU will not work without other around components" & "System on chip is the combination of CPU & other components into a single chip."


texts: Repair an exFAT drive on Mac OS X after it's been improperly disconnected

texts:
Very often an exFAT external disk stops appearing in OS X. It doesn't appear in Disk Utility, Finder, diskutil list or About this Mac/System Report/USB.

The only way I have found to fix it is to boot into Windows and run the standard 'Scan disk for errors' function that pops up on connecting the drive. It never finds any errors. The disk then appears fine in OS X again.

Is there a way I can run this repair in OS X? It seems it is just a flag, possibly to indicate the drive was unplugged without first being ejected.


texts: Can I turn off the alternate keyboards in Messages

texts: When I rotate my iPhone while in Messages, a totally different input area appears. I never use this, can I turn it off?


texts: Is there a maximum number of remote connections that can be setup on mac mini?

texts: We have a mac mini running OSx 10.9.4 with 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 and 8 GB. We use this as a "server" so people within the company can remotely place files that need to be uploaded onto our DAM system. We are now getting a message that says "No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this time because there are already as many connections as the computer can accept". Can you tell me if the number of connections can be changed or is there a set limit? Thanks in advance.


texts: How to resume a "paused" application after an out of memory situation?

texts:
Occasionally - even with abundant care - my 16GB MBPro runs out of application memory and the dreaded "No more application memory available" dialog appears.

Fortunately we are still able to access Activity Monitor:  and the first thing I do is kill the web browsers that tend to accumulate large amounts of memory over time.

Less fortunate is that - even after verifying that the Memory Used + Swap Memory are less than 10GB combined, it is still not possible to resurrect the Paused applications.

If it were not possible to resuscitate the paused apps - then what good is this notification?  Are we compelled to simply kill the apps ourselves?  Given there is now sufficient memory for any of the remaining open apps to continue then why are they still unable to do so?


texts:
I always used MacPorts to install and maintain my GCC compilers and other programs. Now I've heard about Fink and Homebrew. It seems these two utilities are gaining ground in the Mac community, but I don't understand the difference between them.

What is the main difference between MacPorts, Fink, and Homebrew? Is there any difference in quality or performance?