texts: Difficulties Reinstalling Windows on bootcamp with APFS

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I installed bootcamp a few years ago and now Windows is pretty hosed so I want to do a fresh install.  Apple says to delete the bootcamp partition in bootcamp assistant (BCA), and then redo it.

issue is that the SSD got converted to APFS, so when I go into BCA, it immediately says: "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by boot camp assistant for Installing Windows"

I read elsewhere to delete the bootcamp partition with APFS, can either use disk utility or terminal commands.  But if I do that, I suspect I will get same message in BCA and won't be able to create a new partition.

So what is best way to just nuke the bootcamp partition and re-install windows 10 Oct 2018 version?

MacBook Pro 2016, 10.13.6.  output from diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         798.7 GB   disk0s2
3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                200.8 GB   disk0s3
4:           Windows Recovery                         924.8 MB   disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +798.7 GB   disk1
                              Physical Store disk0s2
1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            749.9 GB   disk1s1
2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 19.0 MB    disk1s2
3:                APFS Volume Recovery                515.0 MB   disk1s3
4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4

thanks


texts: Remove all partitions and reinstall MacOS

texts:
I want to reinstall macOS but when I tried to repartition everything it only gave me 125 GB to install the OS on even though it's a 3TB drive. I think there may have been some kind of partition corruption because the computer was acting weird before all of this.

Basically trying to get back to square one and remove all partitions so I can do a fresh install but not sure where to go from here and why there is so much in this list (see image below):

Any advice would be great.


texts: How does Homebrew no longer need ownership of /usr/local?

texts:
Today I ran brew update and after migrating the repository, it reported that it no longer needed ownership of /usr/local:

$ brew update
Updated Homebrew from 5371359 to 13f08a2.
...
==> Migrating HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY (please wait)...
==> Migrated HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY to /usr/local/Homebrew!
Homebrew no longer needs to have ownership of /usr/local. If you wish you can
return /usr/local to its default ownership with:
  sudo chown root:wheel /usr/local

This change seems a little dubious. How does brew accomplish this new behavior, apparently bypassing security controls?


texts: How do I view my purchased movies and TV shows on my Mac?

texts:
I have a MBP (2009 unibody) with Mountain Lion.  I have iTunes Match, iCloud, blah blah blah.

Now when I open iTunes, I'm able able stream down my music but I can't stream movies or TV shows like I can on my AppleTV.

When I go to movies or TV all I get is a screen telling me how I can visit the store.

How can I stream my purchased movies and TV shows?

Thanks


texts: How does Time Machine make room for new users?

texts:
This is more of a hypothetical question, but we've been using a Time Capsule to back up our Macs, and it has steadily been filling up since the year or so that we've had it.

We've since brought a few new Macs onto the network and have started backing them up to the Time Capsule as well. From what I've read, Time Machine makes incremental backups of Macs, and apparently deletes old backups to make room for new ones.

My question is twofold:

How does Time Machine decide which backup information to delete, especially amongst several Macs backed up to a single Time Capsule?
As we add more users to the Time Capsule, and it begins to fill, will Time Machine be smart enough to give new users enough space by deleting old backups from other users? If not, how can we achieve this?


texts: Using 45W Power Adapter with MacBook Pro Retina 15

texts:
I would like to know if I am able to use a 45W MagSafe Power Adapter in my MacBook Pro Retina 15 with a MagSafe to MagSafe 2 Adapter.

I am normally using the original one (85W MagSafe 2 Power Adapter) but I just want to know that the computer will charge correctly and that the battery won't be hurt.


texts: What's the best way to sell my iPhone 3G in the UK?

texts:
The same as this question ( http://gadgets.stackexchange.com/questions/9/what-do-i-need-to-do-to-sell-my-iphone-3gs ) except with the UK in mind.

I have a 16GB iPhone 3G and have recently upgraded (we don't need to argue if it's an upgrade :p) to the iPhone 4. What's the recommended way to sell it in the UK? It has one small crack on the back near the vibration switch so it probably doesn't count as near new (depending on your definition of near).


texts: How to make automator app use a specific folder as input

texts:
I have a number of processes that I need a Mac Mini to run with no input.

One of these tasks is to take ingested video files, rename them and transfer them to another location.

The app I am using to ingest the files is called one way sync and it is capable of running a script upon completion. Using this, I can trigger an automator app to run. However I do not know a way to specify the input for this app as the contents of X folder.

I need the app to run on the contents of folder X every time.

Can anybody tell me what i'm missing?


texts: Why does the iMac display show non-zero values for blue and green pixels for a .png image whose blue and green color planes are zero?  I used the digital color meter to show the non-zero values for the blue and green pixels and I confirmed that the .png file has zero values in the blue and green color planes by using python scripts to inspect the array values.


texts: Assign function key to Debug ("Step Into") in Mac Excel Visual Basic Editor

texts:
I've tried many things to assign a 1-key shortcut to the "Step Into" debugging function in the VBA editor for Mac Excel (Mac VBE). I posted a question about this on Stack Overflow but my experience is that Macintosh-related questions often don't get resolved there, as in this case.

Below are screenshots showing an attempt to reassign to the F8 key (which is used in Windows for this). Although it looks like it would work, pressing the key does nothing when debugging (although the awkward default shift-cmd-i still works).  There are other 'solutions' to this kind of problem which do not work for me. Namely, using the FN key in combination with F8 or checking the "Use F1,F2,etc. keys as standard function keys" checkbox within Settings.  I've also tried using a utility called FunctionFlip, but like others, it didn't work for me.

I'm not tied to F8, and would be happy to reassign others such as F5, F6 or F7 which are already used within the Mac VBE. I say this because according to a comment by Emilio F8 is special on the Mac. But when I tried with F5, for example, it also failed.

I'm using Excel 16.29.1 on an Office 365 Personal subscription on a MacBook pro without a touch panel (which I understand replaces the function keys), and I use both notebook keyboard and an external (mac) keyboard purchased in 2019.


texts: Disable notification prompts Safari 10.1

texts:
I am trying to prevent notification prompts from various websites in Safari 10.1. In the past one could go preferences > notifications and uncheck Allow websites to ask for permission to send push notifications, as pointed out in this answer.

I still get notifications prompts from some websites whether or not that box is checked/unchecked...

Is this a bug with Safari or I am forced to chmod the remote notifications directory?


texts: Set an external display as main and always display the app switcher UI on it

texts:
I was wondering if there is a way to set an external display positioned towards visible right of my Mac as primary, and always show the app switcher UI Command + Tab on that display.

I tried the said arrangement (as shown below), but the app switcher still appears on the MacBook Pro's built-in display (on left), which is very annoying, as I have to turn my head left to see which app is selected.

As you can see, I positioned the white bar (that should define the main display) in the external display - however, this behaviour is not respected. How do I configure my system to achieve the intended behaviour.

I am using a MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra 10.12.6.


texts:
I imported a folder of photos in Canon CR2 and DNG raw format into Photos.app. They show up fine locally in the app (I can edit them), but they don't upload to iCloud. Ordinary JPG files in the same folder upload successfully. The RAW images were shot without corresponding JPGs, ie the CR2 and DNG images are the only copy.
Are CR2/DNG unsupported by iCloud, or is there something wrong with my setup?


texts:
Is there a way to filter the console by multiple criteria?
I'd like to display only warnings and errors from the PHP log file. The following searches for the string error warning which doesn't exist


texts:
I need to connect to Ubuntu Vinegar VNC and Windows UltraVNC.  I can't find one that sync's the clipboard so I can past from my Macbook to the others OS.  It works fine Windows to Ubuntu and vise versa so the VNC servers are fine.

A low cost solution would be preferred as my countries currency is a quarter of the value of the US$.


texts: How can I make it so that customers can download my app on their ios device without using the app store?

texts: I have already made a native iOS app and I was wondering if the consumers could just download the app onto their phone without jailbreaking or installing anything. I could maybe use a third party app store, but I can't have them download the store app and I need it to use my native app, not a web app. Is this even possible? My alternative is to make the app a web app and put it on a 3rd party web app store.


texts: Mac Mail deleted an entired thread of emails without my consent

texts:
This never happened to me before but yesterday I had a big thread of emails open on my Mail app (~60 emails) and I don't know how but today they're gone. This happened at my office.

All the emails my client and I exchanged for the past 3 months simply disappeared without my consent.

I've tried searching for them directly on the server through Round Cube and they aren't there (not even on the Trash, Junk or Archive folders.) I've just arrived home to see if my sleeping MacBook hadn't synced in the meantime, but it turns out it does even in sleep mode.

I don't have Time Machine enabled and don't do backups of my Mac because I have everything on iCloud.

Does anyone know if there is some kind of internal trash / cache or any other place I can search for this emails?

Thank you


texts: What can I do if an application is "Not Responding"?

texts:
An application is reported as "Not Responding" by the activity monitor and "sleeping" by top.  I am very reluctant to kill it because I will lose my work.

Is there anything I could do?

E.g., kill -s SIGINT - might it help? Is it safe to try?


texts: How can I convert a case-sensitive APFS partition into a case-insensitive one?

texts:
I want to convert my case-sensitive  partition to case-insensitive on MacOS Mojave

The only solutions I've found is iPartition (which is discontinued) and ideas on how to do this for HFS.

Does someone have a solution for APFS?


texts: Can I secure a Mac's ad hoc network better than just the default WEP?

texts: I have created an Ad Hoc network broadcasting from my iMac. Since I am on a University Campus I think it is likely that at least a few people know how to crack WEP. Is there any way on Mac to use WPA? I know it is possible with Windows.


texts: I found an email in my sent mailbox which had gone to a completely different and unrelated address from the one I'd entered by tapping the reply button on the original email I was answering  I hadn't gone anywhere near my address book so the change of the intended address is absolutely inexplicable.  Is there a bug that does that?  I'm using the Apple Mail application on a new Macbook Pro with Yosemite.


texts: AppleScript tell application "Finder" can't use special characters

texts:
I found this question about the possibility to exchange windows paths with mac users and vice versa.
How to translate between Windows and Mac -style file locations?
It's working great for me, but for some reason the finder won't open paths with special characters in it. For example ä, ö, ü (which are common in germany).
I thought they are converted or something. So I removed the tell application part and replaced it with return mylocation to see whats happening. The returned path is the correct one and also special characters are in it.
Why does the finder not open it? Is there any workaround for this?
I paste the code here, so we talk about the same thing without confusion:
on searchReplace(theText, SearchString, ReplaceString)
    set OldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to SearchString
    set newText to text items of theText
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ReplaceString
    set newText to newText as text
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to OldDelims
    return newText
end searchReplace

on run {input, parameters}

    set myClip to the input
    set mylocation to searchReplace(myClip, "<", "")
    set mylocation to searchReplace(mylocation, ">.", "")
    set mylocation to searchReplace(mylocation, ">", "")
    set mylocation to searchReplace(mylocation, "\\", "/")
    set mylocation to "smb:" & mylocation
    set mylocation to searchReplace(mylocation, " ", "%20")

    tell application "Finder"
        open location mylocation
    end tell

    # after setting the location, set Finder to topmost, or delete this section if you dont want that.
    tell application "Finder"
        activate
    end tell

    return input
end run


texts: Is there a technical reason that new (Apple Silicon) Macs need less RAM?

texts:
I typically don't upgrade my MacBook Pro until I can buy a machine with at least twice the RAM. (I rarely find the CPU to be the primary limitation of any machine I use.)  When Apple released a MacBook Pro with 64 GB I was interested in getting it, but it would have totaled close to $4000, so I held off and kept using my 16 GB MBP from 2015.   Now my current machine is having issues that I've been unable to resolve, so I'm in a hurry to replace it.  However if I want to buy anything with the new "Apple Silicon" M1 chip, it will max out at 16 GB, and anything more will require buying a legacy CPU, which seems ridiculous at this point.
Is there some reason that the newer machines can do more with the same amount of RAM?  Are they somehow more efficient with memory?  Or is this simply part of rolling out low-end machines first, with no particular technical justification?


texts:
When I connect to a particular Wi-Fi network, it asks me to accept a certificate. I can check the certificate details, such as signatures and so on, but not the fingerprint. I'm fairly certain the certificate is correct so I accepted it.

Where can I find, in iOS, the certificates in use (such as this one I just accepted) and how can I see their fingerprints?


texts: Copy a Dock plist to replace another user's Dock

texts:
I'm trying to copy a prepared Dock plist to another already existing user account. It seems simple enough:

sudo cp ./default.com.apple.Dock.plist /Users/$USERNAME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Dock.plist

However, it does not work. I tried to rm -f the existing Dock plist first and then copying over the new one, I tried killing the Dock and not killing it afterwards, I tried rebooting the machine, I tried cp -f, all don't matter. I still get the old Dock.

When I copy over the same Dock plist to the user template folder in /System and make a new account, it suddenly works as expected.

The account of the user who receives the new Dock plist is NOT logged in, by the way. Also the template Dock file is from another computer. However I don't think the file itself is corrupt, since it does work with new User accounts. Also the path is correct because the Modified date of the plist in /Preferences is updated.

What am I missing here? Some rights issues maybe?


texts: Numbers: Creating a Summary table based on values from different table

texts:
I have a table that looks much like this:

That Category column is entered manually and will have several duplicated values.

I’d LOVE to be able to create a “Summary” table that manages to copy and manipulate some of this data. Namely:

It would take the “Category” columns with its duplicates, remove duplicated and sort the list;
Have a second column that sums all values in that category’s fields;
And finally, have a third row that shows how many times the original keywords appeared in the first table.

Here is a screenshot of what I’m trying to achieve:

Possible??


texts: Macbook loses network connection when connecting external display

texts:
In the image below you can see the mtr output while connecting the screen, the red part is where the monitor is connected. The monitor works just fine and has no problems with other computers, it's just that the macbook is apparently slightly crazy.

The wireless connection appears to be working just fine, but the connection has over 80% packet loss and/or have a latency of multiple seconds when the monitor is connected. The access point is a 2013 time capsule which has no problems as far as I know.

Specs:

Monitor: Dell 2007FP connected through DVI with the converter shown below
Laptop: Macbook Pro Retina 15" 2012
Thunderbolt to DVI/HDMI/Displayport converter (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mini-Displayport-Adapter-Cable-Thunderbolt/dp/B0093UCXEO)


texts: How to change the iPhone's audio output back to non-bluetooth? (internal speakers)

texts:
At first I thought Pokemon Go is the only issue, but today I installed Clash of Clans and it is the same situation: the game audio will try to go out through the Bluetooth channel but since there is no bluetooth device around, it is all mute.

If I plug in the earbuds, then I can hear something for both Pokemon Go and Clash of Clans. The other way is: if I find and turn on a portable Bluetooth speaker, or if I go to the car and use the bluetooth there.

But there should be a way to make these app go out through the iPhone's internal speakers. How can it be done? (if I turn off Bluetooth on the iPhone, it doesn't solve the problem).

P.S. the iPhone Music app doesn't have this problem. Only the apps do -- so I don't think it is apps' problem. I am using iOS 10.2.1 which is quite recent.

P.P.S. just as a test, I just installed Angry Birds Rio, and it is exactly the same with Pokemon Go, Clash of Clans: no audio. So I don't think it is the apps' problem.


texts:
Is there a quick way to check in terminal that the terminal command pwd returns the correct capitalization of the path?

Note that if you do cd ~/desktop then pwd would tell you that your path is /Users/foo/desktop rather than the correct /Users/foo/Desktop.

EDIT: Motivation: build systems need a way to check this early on, otherwise it's really hard to debug. An unsuspecting user uses a wrong capitalisation, starts a build, gets errors that are very puzzling.

EDIT2: Silently accepting incorrectly capitalised input for cd is the standard behaviour of bash on an HFS+ file system, and thus for the vast majority of OSX users. Then, pwd is a bash builtin, and it simply takes the content of the path stack of the shell (typos included).


texts: I have a jailbroken iPhone 6,but I've been using it for 1 month and I decided I didn't want to anymore so I went on settings and erased all content and data but it made my screen stuck on the boot logo and loading bar ,what should I do?


texts:
I forgot my password for my icloud account. When I try to recover it form iforgot.apple.com it gives me 2 options:

1- Send an e-mail to my recover e-mail address.
2- Answer the security questions

The problem is:

2- Doesn't accept my birthday (I think I made a mistake while registering)
1- It says that the e-mail will be sent to my old me.com account, which doesn't exist anymore and redirects to icloud (because of iCloud update).

Please help me. Is there any other possibility except calling apple-support.


texts:
I purchased a large inventory of office furniture with IT equipment. The Mac mini server I received is password locked and I can't get in.

When I start the computer I have an option for Admin or Guest User. The Admin account is password locked and the Guest User account wont let me do anything.

How do I access the Admin account without a password?


texts:
I just bought an LG 21:9 monitor, with a native resolution of 2560x1080p at 60 Hz.

Now, my mac mini late 2012 (HD4000) allow me to select resolutions up to 1920x1080p and no more.
The monitor is connected via HDMI, but the HDMI on the mini should be able to output up to 2560x1440p@60Hz...

Any advice?


texts: How to Unset iTunes Track Start And Stop Time For Multiple Tracks?

texts: For some reason a lot of tracks in my iTunes library have senseless start and stop times set. This is really annoying as some tracks get skipped after a few seconds. There are Apple Script commands for setting them but I didn't find a way to clear all times. How can I batch clear them?


texts: Health Data is suddenly using a lot of iCloud Storage on iOS 10

texts:
I've noticed that since I've upgraded to iOS 10 public beta, Health Data is using 275mb of my iCloud storage (and it's increasing), which I think is much more than usual.

As far as I can recall, it was less than 10mb on iOS 9. Any ideas on why it's eating up iCloud storage and how to resolve this issue?


texts: What is com.apple.preferences.users.remoteservice and why is it using significant energy in my new mac?

texts:
I just bought a new mac. I've been using it a couple of days, and today I find that under "Apps using significant energy" there is a listing com.apple.preferences.users.remoteservice.

What is it ? Why is it using significant energy ? Should I kill it ?


texts:
I performed a clean installation of Mountain Lion and installed JDK7.

java -version in Terminal returns java version "1.7.0_05" correctly, still Java Preferences and some other Java programs (such as Eclipse) result in prompts to install Java SE 6.

I can start Eclipse perfectly from the command line with Java 7.

Is there a way to get this working without having to install Java 6?


texts: TimeMachine setup backup to internal harddrive

texts:
I want to setup TimeMachine backup to my internal hard-drive on MacBookPro with Mojave 10.14.3
(I know it is not safe in case the hard-drive fails!)

So I added a new encrypted AFPS volume. But in TimeMachine setup I can not select it.
Can I do this? (without losing all my current data on my internal drive)


texts: PBS not working on Apple TV. Other channels are fine

texts:
I have I believe is a second generation AppleTV. A few weeks ago, I could no longer stream PBS content. I can get all other channels without any issues.

I can get into the PBS app itself. I can see the content. I can go into settings. If I select something to watch, I sometimes even see the commercial supported by content that plays at the beginning of some of the streams. However, I then see the little spinner, and the screen goes blank. If I press the Apple TV Remote, I can see the frame which shows where I am in the show, and it even shows me the length of the show, but nothing plays.

I've rebooted the Apple TV by unplugging it and plugging it back in. I've switched PBS affiliates. I haven't tried completely resetting my Apple TV because that means reentering and enabling every other channel. I'm hoping to do that as a last resort.

I've seen hints on other forums that the most recent Apple TV update of PBS broke the service, but nothing solid, and nothing about what can be done to fix the issue.

Anyone else have or had these issues? Was anyone else able to work around them?


texts: App Store asking for other Apple ID when updating apps

texts:
My friend's mate reset his phone to prove him wrong about a situation and ever since then when he tries to update his apps it asks for his mom's iCloud password yet it says at the bottom of the App Store, iTunes and iCloud that it's signed into his account.

We have tried backing it up into his computer but that didn't help. What can be done?


texts: Disk Utility: Incorrect number of file hard links

texts:
I'm running Mountain Lion on my Mid 2009 MBP. Recently(for last few months) it's acting really slow. Simplest actions are taking forever to perform. So I verified disk using the Disk Utility and it said that Incorrect number of file hard links and The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired. It suggested me to restart and repair. I did that but about a week later it became slow again. I verified again and this time also it gave the same message.

Can I be certain that it's a fault of the HDD and just change it?


texts: How do I remove the updatetoolnotifier from launchctl?

texts:
Over a year ago I was working with the Glassfish app server. It apparently installed an "update notifier" that occasionally checks for updates and presents a dialog like this:

Since I'm no longer using this server (go Tomcat!) I'd like to stop getting these update messages. Through some ps -f spelunking I see that it's running

/Users/myusername/Library/Application Support/updatetool/notifier

and that the parent pid launching it is launchctl. I'm aware that I can just blow away the $HOME/glassfish dir, or perhaps the updatetool dir, but that would leave behind whatever bits are telling launchctl to run its occasional updates. I'd prefer a clean removal.

I see that it's running with the following:

$ launchctl list | grep -i update
494 -   [0x0-0x3c03c].net.java.updatecenter.updatetoolnotifier

In the past I've tried removing the entry via

launchctl remove [0x0-0x3c03c].net.java.updatecenter.updatetoolnotifier

But that seems to have no effect; it always comes back. How can I remove Glassfish cleanly, and prevent it from trying to update itself after removal?


texts: How to maximize `Preview` by keyboard shortcut?

texts:
This question is about the Preview app. I use that a lot to read stuff (PDF files, etc.
Each time it opens, it forgets the last Window state.
On a Retina Mac, it is ideal to have it opened at "Two pages" view (Command-3) in "almost fullscreen" mode: the window as large and wide as possible but keeping the menu, toolbar and dock visible (this is almost distraction free).

The way I do it now is tedious, especially as I have to repeat these steps for every document:

open a document
press Command-3
drag the top-left corner of the Preview window to the left of the screen against the menu bar on the top.
drag the bottom-right corner of the Preview window to the right of the screen against the dock on the bottom.

I'm a software developer. I hate repetitive steps.

How can I either:

force Preview to open this way?
if Preview can't: by keyboard force Preview to be "almost full screen" with "Two pages" view?
bonus: make this work for other applications (like Chrome or FireFox) as well.

Background:

  More than a year ago, I switched my host machine from Windows to Mac.
  Most things work great (some like battery life and speed of sleep/wake
  should be far more advertised), but there are still a few things that
  I miss dearly. Most of those have to do with me having had RSI in the
  early 90's because of mouse and touchpad usage, so I'm very keyboard
  oriented.


texts: How do I locate applications that drain my battery on a MacBook Pro?

texts:
I purchased a new Macbook Pro and have since downloaded a ton of applications and add ins.  I think some of these apps are responsible for draining my battery too quickly.

How do I identify what applications are responsible for this, or otherwise experience what a "clean machine" feels like?

Back in the day I used Extensions Manager on OS 7.x to turn off add ins that would slow my machine down.  What is the equivalent in OSX?


texts:
Despite having the dates on the right hand side when I enter Time Machine, whenever I try to search Macintosh HD or any other folder, I get zero results. This happens for every date I click. Even yesterday.
Also, Recents doesn't work.


texts: Notification center documentation for applescript

texts:
Where can I find documentation for notification center method and properties to use it in applescript? I can't find anything in script editor's dictionary neither on web.

This is example code to work with notification center:

on run
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "Notification Center"
           set theseWindows to every window
           display notification (count of theseWindows)
        end tell
   end tell
end run


texts: How does iMazing reboot/shutdown iPhone remotely?

texts:
I was playing arround with iMazing and found out that it can reboot/shutdown my iPhone 6s without it being Jailbroken.

Does anyone know what commands it uses and how I could do this myself from my Mac?

When looking at the file contents, I found in the frameworks folder that is uses the frameworks DDNAToolKit.framework and DevMateKit.framework and in the MacOS folder, it contains an AppleScriptServer executable.

This functionality works via Wi-Fi and USB.


texts:
I've had my first Mac for about five months now. Though, even when I was a full-on Windows user, I never did things through a command line; I was pretty much for the GUI all-the-way..

But now that I have my Mac, I'm interested in learning a little about the Terminal and the commands used in it. So far I've learned how to do minor things, like moving, renaming, and deleting files, ect. But now I want to go for something different, like the mail command.

So tonight I figured out how to send mail to myself through the 'mail' command. But now I'm curious and asking if there's a way to send e-mail to people using say, Yahoo or Hotmail.

Sorry if this is a basic question, but I'm new and curious. Thanks.


texts: OpenVPN to home network connections not working on macOS Big Sur

texts:
I'm using PIVPN with OpenVPN to connect to my home network anywhere in the world.
I have three profiles, one for my iPhone and one for my MacBook Pro and one for a windows laptop.
When I connect to my VPN from either my iPhone or my Windows laptop outside my network, I can successfully connect to my home server via SSH etc.
However, when I connect to the VPN from my MacBook, everything works, like normal browsing and I have my home networks IP address. I just can't ping my home devices or SSH into my server through the connection.
In conclusion, this makes me believe that it is a macOS problem as everything is working on two other devices and my Mac can connect to the vpn, just can't do things that I want it too, like SSH.
I am running macOS Big Sur


texts: Why can't I connect to my Firefox account on my Ipad?

texts:
When I try to connect to my Firefox account on my (old) iPad running iOS 9.3.5 and Firefox 25.1, I get an error 'Impossible de charger la page' (Impossible to load the page).
I tried to delete the app and install it again. With no success...

Any idea?


texts: Making a FaceTime Audio call using AppleScript

texts: I have read through Make a FaceTime call using AppleScript, but the provided solution is for starting a video call. I am wondering if that solution can be adapted to make a FaceTime Audio call (and by extension, maybe even a call via iPhone utilizing Continuity).


texts: Unable to to use screen sharing to connect to OS X Lion Server, but SSH and other admin tools work

texts:
My mac mini with OS X Lion Server 10.7.4 is running headless in a data center so its not physically accessible.  As administrator, I can connect to the server using SSH and other administration tools, however, I'm unable to connect to the server from OS X Lion 10.7.4 using screen sharing. It refuses to accept my credentials. I tried to reboot the server, but it still doesn't work.

The logs indicate the following (server name, username and ip address obfuscated):

Aug 20 00:25:35 myserver screensharingd[28041]: Authentication: FAILED :: User Name: My User :: Viewer Address: 23.23.23.23 :: Type: DH

I had no problem connecting to my server using screen sharing before, however, this was several months and service updates ago. I generally connect to the server using SSH or admin tools to perform updates.

Any idea what could be causing screen sharing not to work? Better yet, any suggestions how to address it using SSH or admin tools?


texts:
I was looking for answers and I can't find any. How can I make the bookmarks folders yellow again?

A similar question was asked here but is not helpful.

They are gray on my mac, however in my windows pc they are yellow. I'm using the latest version of chrome and the data is the same on both OS. Even a clean install would remain the same on mac.

Can I make them yellow on mac?


texts: HDMI output not working on new MacBook Pro 2016 Touch Bar

texts:
I am trying to get HDMI output working (both on tv and my normal HD screen) from my new mac. The device only has USB-C ports, so I bought two types of converters (not official from Apple, but didn't think that would matter):

This adapter, that I use with a regular hdmi cable.
This adapter with integrated cable.

None are recognised by the Mac. I've tried hitting the option key and detecting displays, but none show. I've also tried plugging in the usb cable that is attached to the last cable in the tv too, no luck. I see that the first adapter has a power slot too, I can try to plug in a usb power source there?

I've also just updated Sierra, no luck.

Any other suggestions? My vga / usb-c adapter works fine.

Is there any logfile or so that I could check to see if the device gets recognised?


texts: Are all Notes.app notes stored in iCloud encrypted?

texts:
This page makes it unclear:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

It notes "Encryption is available only when you use the latest iOS or macOS and upgrade your Notes app." - and the latest version of Notes app has a "password protect" option.

What I'm trying to figure out is in the latest version of Notes app, are all notes encrypted on Apple's servers, or just ones that are explicitly password protected?


texts: I downloaded something from safari called blue stacks it doesn't go away

texts: the blue stacks app didn't end up working instead there's this bar that says "Verifying blue stacks installer" Nothing I do gets rid of it. I can't 'x' it out I can only minimize it.


texts: How to force Fake.app to connect an HTML element by XPath (instead of "id" attribute)

texts:
I want to "connect" a Fake Action to an HTML Element on the page via XPath, but when I try to connect the Element, the Element is specified by HTML id attribute instead.

How do I force Fake to specify an HTML Element by XPath when "connecting"?


texts: Any iOS apps for me to talk to people just nearby?

texts:
I want app for iPhone or iPad, which can search for people within 100 meters (probably need to use Bluetooth), and is able to exchange information with them or talk to them directly.

Does anyone know of such an app?


texts: How to change photoshop JPEG output header format?

texts:
We are using Adobe Photoshop on a Mac to output JPEG image files. These image files need to be rendered on an embedded output device that we have no control over.  It seems that the files output by Photoshop use the Exif header format, whereas the embedded device only understands the JFIF header format.

According to Wikipedia:

Strictly speaking, the JFIF and Exif standards are incompatible because they each
  specify that their marker segment (APP0 or APP1, respectively) appears first. In
  practice, most JPEG files contain a JFIF marker segment that precedes the Exif
  header. This allows older readers to correctly handle the older format JFIF segment,
  while newer readers also decode the following Exif segment, being less strict about
  requiring it to appear first.

As an example, here is the Mac-rendered JPEG:

whereas the PC-rendered JPEG (which works on the embedded device) has:

You can also see the Exif header coming after the JFIF one in the PC image above.

Is there a setting in Photoshop that allows us to export JPEGs with the JFIF preamble in the header?

EDIT: After using JPEG Snoop, the header information it decoded is as below.

The PC-generated image has an APP0 (JFIF) header:

*** Marker: APP0 (xFFE0) ***
OFFSET: 0x00000002
length     = 16
identifier = [JFIF]
version    = [1.1]
density    = 96 x 96 DPI (dots per inch)
thumbnail  = 0 x 0

The Mac-generated image has an APP1 (Exif) header:

*** Marker: APP1 (xFFE1) ***
OFFSET: 0x00000002
length          = 24
Identifier      = [Exif]
Identifier TIFF = 0x[49492A00 08000000]
Endian          = Intel (little)
TAG Mark x002A  = 0x002A
EXIF IFD0 @ Absolute 0x00000014
Dir Length = 0x0000
Offset to Next IFD = 0x00000000

Then, after running the suggested XnView, the Mac header looks like:

*** Marker: APP0 (xFFE0) ***
OFFSET: 0x00000002
length     = 16
identifier = [JFIF]
version    = [1.1]
density    = 72 x 72 DPI (dots per inch)
thumbnail  = 0 x 0

And the embedded device can now read this Mac-generated JPEG.


texts: Some of my iOS 10 apps are losing saved settings and information

texts:
Over the past week, may of my apps have started resetting, losing saved settings and information. I have an iPhone 6 on iOS 10.1.1 and a Watch on watchOS 3.1. I updated my iPhone to 10.1.1 on October 31, almost 2 weeks ago. I suspect that the NSUserDefaults of my apps are getting reset based on the data being lost:

The Messages app showed me the "What's new in Messages" page, but my messages were not deleted.
My theme preferences on the app Reeder were lost, but I wasn't logged out of my accounts.
I am logged out of Facebook daily.
I was logged out of WhatsApp once, but my messages weren't deleted, and I don't backup my messages to the cloud.
I was logged out of all my Slack accounts.
I may have been logged out of Strava once.

Other apps like Tweetbot and Snapchat have been functioning just fine. I'm not sure if any of this is related to updating to iOS 10.1.1. Restarting my phone has had no effect. These resets don't seem to be happening all at once. The resets don't render my phone unusable, but it's definitely annoying.


texts: Large external HD array for a Mac mini with RAID to run the Mac mini as a NAS

texts:
I'm looking at getting a NAS to store about 12 TB of data (but would like expansion options in future).

The main purpose of the NAS would be to:

Backup
Have cloud files like Google drive and Dropbox.
Backup our laptops (Time Machine).
Store archived project files (live project files would still be kept in Dropbox).
Possibly work directly on files on the NAS with at max 10 people working at any one time.

Additionally, I would also like RAID options for redundancy.

I've been looking at some Synology NAS models, which can do the above, but they seem to either be reasonably priced but using an Intel Atom CPU. Or quite expensive but using an Intel Xeon CPU. I see there is no option for a Intel Core CPU, and I'm concerned at the unit being under powered with an Atom CPU.

I have a 2012 Mac mini with a i7 CPU c. 2.5ghz which is a decommissioned work machine. The hard drive in side of it is too small for the tasks above, but is there a way I could attach a large external drive array with RAID via USB 3 and run the Mac mini in Server mode to accomplish what I want to do without buying a Synology NAS?


texts: Would it violate the TOS to install a third party hard drive?

texts:
Is it a violation of apples terms of service to
  replace the factory installed hard drive with a larger third party
  one?

I understand that it is a violation of the terms of service to install OSX on non-apple hardware and I was wondering if installing a third party hard drive would be a violation. If so would I need to buy a first party hard drive directly from apple, or is it completely taboo to poke around inside an apple product?

Simply put can you replace the hard drive of an Apple laptop with a third party hard drive?


texts:
On my mac (azerty keyboard layout), I have this key: `, but I'd like it to place the backtick immediately, as I don't have a need to place it on letters.

How can I get my mac to make touching the ` button place the backtick immediately? I use it a lot in Q&A here and have never used it to place it on a letter.


texts: How do I start a new village on my second iOS device?

texts:
So I have the same clash of clans village on my iPad and my iPhone.

How do I start a new village on my iPad while keeping the same one on my iPhone?


texts: OSX Server: failed to connect to the IGD

texts:
Until recently I had an airport extreme as my router that I managed with Server.app for external NAT for server services in Mavericks/Server 3.1.1. However since I got a new router, server system log is filling up with the error below:

  servermgrd[2594]: Failed to connect to the IGD, no status info
  available, error is Error Domain=com.apple.ACPDevice Code=-6753 "The
  operation couldn\u2019t be completed. (com.apple.ACPDevice error
  -6753.)"

Any idea how I can disable this feature so it doesn't keep trying to connect to the IGD?


texts: Will everything be erased? And will I get caught?

texts: Ok so I updated and I restored my iPod so everything about cydia on my ipod will be erased? If I go to an airport will they be able to tell that my iPod was jailbroken?


texts: What is AKAuthorizationRemoteView (Messages) process and akd process?

texts:
I noticed these two processes were causing my computer fan to spin right up, were using practically ALL the CPU % and they had over 40 days of CPU time clocked.
A quick google search revealed nothing. Seems that it may be related to Apple authorization... but why would it use so much CPU??
I'm concerned because AKAuthorizationRemoteView implies it may be performing some remote view operation via Messages.
Any help appreciated.


texts: I am using IOS 7 ipad 2. I have no longer got access to the email associated with my ipad when I bought it so I have changed my iTunes id to a new email address but cannot seem to shift the old email address which my ipad keeps asking for. Help!! How do I get my ipad to accept the new id. I can't switch off "Find my ipad" because it wont let me as it keeps asking for the password  for the old id which is goodness knows what. I need some serious help!!


texts: Sleeping screen (Cinema Display) keeps waking up. How can I make it sleep until mouse is moved?

texts:
I have my Mac Pro (Cyrus) configured not to fall asleep completely but to let the screen sleep when not used for half an hour. I also use the keyboard shortcut for forcing the display to sleep.

However, sometimes, for a few weeks the screen just refuses to sleep and the login alert box appears immediately after the sleep is supposed to start as if somebody violently moved the mouse or pressed a key. After a few weeks the behaviour changes again and sleeping works, for another few weeks. It's periodic.

How can I force the screen to sleep without waking up all the time?


texts: How do I mask "forbidden" chars in passwords in the mount command?

texts:
How do I properly mask/escape illegal characters like /:@\ in passwords added in the mount command?

The question arose in the answer here:

mount -t afp afp://adminname:password@ServerIPAddress/ShareName /Volumes/TimeMachine

The asking person had a backslash "\" in the password and the command didn't work. The solution were single quotes around the afp...-part.

Testing the whole scenario in a VM, I created an admin with a password similar to aaaaa\@11111, but I haven't been able to get the mount command working.


texts: iTunes KERNELBASE.dll crash - Windows 7 Home Premium

texts:
Since I have updated iTunes (11.1.3.8) on my home PC running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 it constantly crashes after about using it for only a couple of minutes.

When I check the Application log on the Event Viewer, i see the following Error info:

  Log Name: Application
  Source: Application Error
  Event ID: 1000
  Level: Error
  Event Details:
  Faulting application name: iTunes.exe, version: 11.1.3.8, time stamp: 0x5274a87d
  Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18229, time stamp: 0x51fb1116
  Exception code: 0x80000003
  Fault offset: 0x00013219
  Faulting process id: 0x2328
  Faulting application start time: 0x01cefe992ffab867
  Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe
  Faulting module path: C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll
  Report Id: d3dfd01c-6a8c-11e3-a1e4-0024e812336e

I do notice another error that accompanies this erro very shortly after this event others.  Here are those details:

  Log Name: Application Source: Bonjour Service Event ID:
  100 Level: Error Event Details: Client application
  bug: DNSServiceResolve(6F91E66928E4AC5D._appletv-v2._tcp.local.)
  active for over two minutes. This places considerable burden on the
  network.

After some additional research, it looks like this error is a result of my Apple TV trying to access my iTunes library via Home Sharing.  I have Apple TV Model MD199LL/A running version 6.0.2 (6646.81.1) of the software.  My AppleTv is connected to my router wirelessly and my computer has a wireless network card (D-Link DWA-552 XtremeN Desktop Adapter) to connect to internet and LAN.

The culprit might be Windows Firewall, but I am not exactly sure what firewall rules I should be looking at.


texts: Tell macOS to only use swap and compressed memory when really needed (macOS 10.14 Mojave)

texts:
As disabling swap and/or compressing memory is not recommended and also not a stable option after 10.9 Mavericks (despite the vm setting exists), I'm doomed after few days of running my Mac with my memory writing to the far-from-optimal pages of memory. As everything gets to swap or compressed memory so easily, I need to reboot my system relatively often (despite my 16GB RAM).

I'm searching for a solution which saves me from these slowdowns.

For example in Linux zramswap is optional. Also Linux has its swappiness value between 0 and 100 variable like

vm.swappiness=5

Also I may consider a solution about file cache (which usually randomly eats up tons of memory for no valid reason and fails to drop it before RAM turns to the less optimal purgatories of compressed memory and swap). For example here ZFS has an option on FreeBSD to maximize the size of file cache in memory:

vfs.zfs.arc_max="1536M"

In macOS the best known workaround for the file cache issue is running

# /usr/sbin/purge

Which is even "cronnable". So this flushes file cache, but unlikely to be optimal. It flushes too many things. Also if something is already in swap and/or compressed memory, despite the purge it stays there, so those softwares using them stay slow (and I feel that slowness, trust me).

Is there any solution to make macOS less likely to use file cache, compressed memory or swap (but still keep the first for performance and the latter two for emergency)?


texts: How can I permit SSH connection terminal programs to access Camera?

texts:
I'm connecting to my macOS 10.15.1 device over SSH via PuTTY on a Windows computer to run a terminal program, imagesnap, that attempts to use the MacBook's camera.

When I ran the program locally on command-line on a Terminal the first time I got a permission pop-up that allowed me to give Terminal access to Camera in the Security & Privacy settings.

When I run the same program on command-line via an SSH connection the program aborts without successfully taking a photo, and I receive no permission request for Camera access.

When I look at the section Camera in the Security & Privacy settings after trying to run the program using SSH there are no entries besides Terminal, which was already given access. Terminal is shown marked as having Camera access, so it and SSH programs are separate considerations for Security & Privacy.

How do I give my SSH connection programs Camera access?


texts: Restore MacBook AIr (mid 2011) partitions

texts:
I just messed up my partions on my harddisk.

The situation:

Installed windows 7 using bootcamp (NTFS).
After that i wanted to ceate a shared partition, on wich both MAC OS and Windows can write.
In windows 7 Disk Management i took 5 GB off the Bootcamp partion, and created a FAT32 partion from it.

Now when i boot only the windows partition is visible when i reboot (no macosx or restore) When i try to start windows it gives a short BSOD (acnt read t) and then reboots again.

I guess i should create some sort of bootable restore USB stick.
Any ideas how to get me going again ....please....


texts: Monitor Internet traffic flowing via my MacBook?

texts:
My MacBook is connected to an Internet cable and meanwhile sharing the Internet connection with other devices over Wi-Fi. That is, my MacBook serves as a router, which broadcasts Wi-Fi signals.

Since essentially, all the Internet packets travel through my MacBook, there must be a way whereby I can monitor which device is viewing what contents using my hot spot.

Is there a software (preferably free) or some built-in block that allows me to achieve this?


texts: Is there an plugin for Safari that opens certain file extensions?

texts:
I have searched for quite awhile and I can't find anything that sounds similar to what I'm looking for.

A lot of my files that I access from my schools website have Microsoft Office extensions like .ppt, .doc, .docx, and so on.

Every time I open our "dailyschedule.doc" it opens a new Safari tab.. then downloads the doc file. I seriously have probably 30+ copies of these stupid things! Why can't they just be opened like a web page?

It's annoying and even Google search results will just download powerpoint files and open them up in ppt/keynote. PDF does it sometimes too, but it's so annoying!

Is there something that will let me just look at the files in safari without having to download them every single time I want to look at them?


texts: Does Find My Friends require that Wi-Fi be on & that the app be running to get notifications?

texts:
I'm not getting notifications from "Find My Friends."

Do I have to leave Find My Friends always open to get notifications?
Does my friend's phone have to have Find My Friends open to send
notifications?
Do I have to have Wi-Fi on to get notifications?
Does my friend's phone have to have Wi-Fi on to send notifications?


texts: App icon switches to low resolution upon launching an app

texts:
Recently I started getting this really weird but annoying bug. While the app is in the Dock but not working, its icon is in good resolution. But once I open it, the icon switches to low resolution. Same thing with its icon in the app switcher (Command + Tab) view.

It only affects the Wolfram Mathematica app. I tried reinstalling the program as well as the whole Mac OS X, but it's still there, anyone know how to fix it?

I am running Mac OS X Mojave.

Before launching the app:

After launching the app:

Version of Mathematica:


texts: Play/pause is given priority to FaceTime instead of music playing applications

texts:
I listen to music on my iMac while working.  When I get an incoming call (either FaceTime or cellular call) I want to pause the music and then answer the call (either by iMac or phone).  In a reflex I always punch the play/pause key on my keyboard (the key shared with F8), which at that moment doesn't pause the music but is sent to the FaceTime app to answer the call.

Which results in me not having a choice which device I want to use to answer, while the music continues to play in the background...  I can't find any setting to control this in either the Keyboard settings nor the FaceTime preferences.

How do I stop the play/pause button from being used by FaceTime to answer the call?


texts: If i sign out of the find my iphone app will the sound still go off?

texts: If I have pressed the "play a sound" button in the app will the sound still play even after I sign out of the app?


texts: So the question in the title “Can I extend my MacBook Air 13.3 A1369 SSD to 512GB?”


texts: Sometime overnight, all of my contacts have disappeared from my iPad 2. All contacts are still available on my iPhone 4s and my 4th-generation iPod touch. I do use iCloud sync but I can't seem to get the contacts back on my iPad. What do I need to do to get my contacts back?


texts: I use Chrome as my default browser on Mac, but use Safari exclusively on iPhone - How can I keep bookmarks in sync?

texts:
So as per the title, I use Chrome on my mac but Safari on my iOS devices.

I'm struggling to find a way to sync the bookmarks I add on my Mac computer to Safari as a whole, previously it seemed as though Xmarks was a good solution, but it's defunct.

It's frustrating as this is possible on the PC, but not on a Mac where I do the majority of my computing, and the stupid chrome bookmark sync won't run on a mac saying it's designed to run on a PC, but yet there it's handled by iCloud.

Anyway, thanks in advance.


texts: How to change Security Policy for a non-app program (ssh)?

texts:
GateKeeper seems to have started blocking aspects of ssh... Can I edit the System Policy database (/var/db/SystemPolicy) to allow ssh to run properly?

This started happening (a few days) after I created an ~/.ssh/id_rsa file. It seems ssh hangs when trying to parse this file. It has permissions of 600, and is owned by my uid.

$ ssh -v <user>@<host>
....
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: ~/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: key_parse_private_pem: PEM_read_PrivateKey failed
debug1: read PEM private key done: type <unknown>

Here, ssh hangs, and I get the following in /var/log/system.log

coreservicesd[30]: Application App:"SecurityAgent" [ 0x0/0x864363b]  @ 0x0x7fb6fb012670 tried to be brought forward, but isn't in fPermittedFrontASNs ( ( ASN:0x0-0x1001:) ), so denying.
WindowServer[120]: [cps/setfront] Failed setting the front application to SecurityAgent, psn 0x0-0x864363b, securitySessionID=0x186a4, err=-13066
com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Engine::authorize: Rule::evaluate returned 4294907288 returning errAuthorizationInternal

If I run spctl --master-disable, then ssh works as expected, but obviously my security settings are diminished. Any idea how I can get ssh to work without disabling GateKeeper entirely?

UPDATE:-

The spctl --master-disable trick doesn't work for me any more :(
Since asking the question, I have updated to OSX 10.8.1. Not sure if that's related, but I can't think of anything else that would affect the ssh security policy.
So now, I can't commit anything to github!! :@
Help!?

UPDATE2:-

For some reason unbeknown to me, ssh and git would ask me for the id_rsa password (and then actually authenticate / connect) if I was in a fresh terminal session. I use tmux (like screen, which comes pre-installed on OSX, but I prefer tmux), in which I keep my bash sessions open for days, or weeks at a time. In an old tmux shell, I get the errors as described above, but in a fresh bash session, there are no error messages, and everything works as expected, even with spctl --master-enable..

Anyone know why this is, or how to re-authenticate a shell??


texts: Is it possible to make a folder look and behave like a file?

texts:
I'm developing a desktop application which saves its projects to disk.  Projects contain multiple files, like json and jpg etc.

Current solution: zipped file

I'm "zipping" them all together into a single file.  Example:

filename.project            <- compressed zip
  manifest.json             <- compressed contents
  file1.jpg

Ideal solution: uncompressed folder

I'm wondering if it's possible to output the data, uncompressed, to a folder instead, and somehow configure my OS to treat that folder as a single file?  Example:

filename.project            <- folder, but it gets treated like a file
  manifest.json             <- uncompressed contents
  file1.jpg

Definition of "Treated as a single file":

Finder shows a custom icon
Double-clicking opens the file association
"Open" dialogs can select this file

Other examples

On my Mac, there are 2 examples where I see this happening:
 - All apps appear as .app files, but internally are folders that I can explore via Terminal
 - 1Password stores its password store in a .agilekeychain folder, which syncs to Dropbox as a folder, but appears in Finder as a single file.


texts: Duplicate 'Unknown Album' listings for the same artist in Music app

texts:
I am trying to group all songs with no album title (i.e. the 'Album' field for the songs' metadata is empty) for the same artist into one "Unknown Album"

Each song with no album title should be grouped in the same "Unknown Album" album for the artist. Instead each individual song for the artist is split into multiple "Unknown Album" listings (see image)

What I have tried to fix this:
In iTunes, adding an album title for every song with no album title, then removing the album title.


texts: How do I password protect a folder on macOS Catalina?

texts: I have been attempting to password protect a folder on macOS Catalina. I did read through a couple of articles and previous answers and all of them talk about creating an encrypted disk image or password protected .zip folder. I need to have my folder such that, I double click on this normal regular looking folder and it prompts me for a password and if I type in the correct password it opens up the finder with the contents of that folder and/or I click on the folder again and it behaves like a regular folder. How can I achieve this?


texts: Is there any way to add a pronunciation to OSX text to speech service? I've google for the last few hours without a solution.


texts:
ctrl + shift + V does plain text paste on Chrome and Firefox on Linux and Windows (removes all HTML formatting from WYSIWYG pasted text).

I think Chrome honours cmd + shift + V, but this doesn't seem to work in Firefox 6.

Is there a shortcut to paste as plain text on Firefox?


texts: How can I customize the Lion login screen to remove the vignette effect?

texts:
Just upgraded to Lion, but the new login screen needs some colour. I found someone online who posted the address of the image that's in the background, so I went and replaced that.

Only, after doing that, I realized that there's an additional overlay being drawn that adds a vignette effect by brightening the center of the screen.

Does anyone know of a way to remove this?


texts:
I have a new Apple Watch and have to learn how to use this device properly.

Because I miss-add a workout in the Health App my activity rings show that I exercised more than 1000 minutes.

I cannot find these minutes anymore kn my Health App but want to clean these results.


texts:
As you know, backtick ( ` ) is needed to mark down the code blocks when writing any answer / comment in stackoverflow or any other stackexchange sites. But I am struggling to find out the key to write backtick when using my iPhone.

I am new to iPhone and using iPhone 6s. Thanks for your help in advance.


texts:
Gmail is showing me this menu instead of the regular right-click menu. Particularly, I need "Open in Tab" for individual mails.

How do I get back to the "regular" Chrome/Safari right-click menu?


texts:
It happens sometimes that the yellow circle in the top left of the windows, for minimizing, becomes gray for some windows. In particular it is gray for Finder, Safari, Calendar, iTerm2, Xchat Azure, Chrome, VirtualBox, and is still yellow for other windows, for example Mail, KeePassX, NoteBook, FreeMind, DjView, Lyx.

Obviously, when it is gray it is disabled.
The situation comes back to normal apparently without any reason.

The OS is Mountain Lion 10.8.5, and this is a screenshot


texts: What are some alternatives to the Mac App Store?

texts: I want something that will easily update all my applications. The Mac App Store doesn't do this with applications not purchased from the Mac App Store, I need something else. In addition, I would also like to be able to browse apps.


texts: Microsoft all-in-one media keyboard not working with Macbook Bigsur

texts: I have the using the Microsoft all-in-one media keyboard with windows machine and it works fine, but with my macbook, the experience is really bad, it lags and the track pad is jerky/ slow and unpredictable. And none of the gestures work. Many sites show that Microsoft all-in-one keyboard with trackpad is compatible with Mac.


texts: El Capitan, Java application "can't be opened"

texts:
OK, this is really weird.  I'm on El Capitan, am developing a Java app.  Yesterday I made a new release and put it in Applications on my machine, right where the previous version used to be.  Went to double-click it and got told "The application "BLAHS.app" can't be opened."

I went straight to Sys Prefs, Security, and told it to open any programs at all.  Still wouldn't launch.  (So I set the security back up)

Right-clicking on the app and choosing Open gets the exact same message.

Then I noticed that a copy of the same release, with name "BLAHS 3.9.app" did launch.  So did "BLAHS3.app" and "BLAHS .app" and even "BLAH.app".  In fact it seems that any name which is not "BLAHS.app" will launch.

I've tried using chmod a+x to muck with the file permissions, even though File Matey reported that all the executable bits were already on.  It made no difference.

The previous version (called "BLAHS.app") launches just fine.

The offending version also launches fine when copied to my home directory.

Has anybody met this and knows the solution?  This is a codebase I've been developing for years and I've never come across it before.  It's not the first time I've done a release after I ungraded to El Capitan.  I don't want to have to munge the name of my program just to get the Mac to play ball! :(


texts: macOS annoyingly puts fullscreen videos in a new "space"

texts:
When watching a video on YouTube (or any other streaming service) – I use mainly Safari, sometimes Chrome, with the same result – when I switch to fullscreen, the video goes fullscreen in a new "Space" (virtual screen).

I'm not interested in virtual spaces in general, I've always found it to be a very un-Mac-y way to work. But in the case of videos, it's pretty annoying. Let's say I get a notification (mail, IM, anything) and want to quickly check it. I command-tab to the app that sent me the notification and instead of just superimposing to window on top of the video (as it does on Windows and as it did in earlier versions of Mac OS X), the sound continues playing, the video vanishes and I get that useless screen:

I then have to click to exit full screen and double click again to get the full screen back (I'm sure there are other ways, with gestures and all, but it's just annoying).

Is there a way to revert to a sensible (à la Windows, or previous OS X versions) on recent macOS versions? I know VLC can do it, so it is theoretically possible, but did Apple hide a system setting somewhere to change that behaviour? If not, is there an app that does it?


texts: Connect a Thunderbolt Display to windows 8 desktop

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I've been spinning around with this question but couldn't find the answer. Hope someone here could help.

I have been trying to connect my Windows 8 desktop to a Thunderbolt Display 27" without success. My desktop only has HDMI and VGA output. Hence, I naturally tried two options:

1, Desktop <==(VGA)=adapter=(Thunderbolt)==> Display

Result: Thunderbolt screen remains blank/black/not turned on when I plug it in. Also tried to restart the desktop while the two are connected, no luck!

2, Desktop <==(HDMI)=adapter=(Thunderbolt) ==> Display

Results: Exactly the same as above.

Any suggestion folks?

P/S:I've paid $2K for two of my Thunderbolt displays thus don't want to throw them away.


texts: Turn off login notification email for Facebook chat on a Mac

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I have setup Facebook chat in Messages on my Mac. The problem is that every time Messages logs in to chat, I receive an email saying:

  It looks like someone logged into "Facebook Chat" on Sunday, March 2,
  2014 at 11:07am. If this was you, please disregard this email. If this
  wasn't you, please secure your account, as someone else may be
  accessing it.

I understand that this is essentially a Facebook security mechanism to warn users about unauthorised access to their account. My question is: Is there a way to mark Messages as an 'authorised application' so that I don't get this notification email every time?


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I have popup notifications appearing anytime my girlfriend has one on the calendar she shares with me.

Since sharing the calendars avoids me calling her in the middle of a work session, when she's highly concentrated, I'm really unmotivated to remove her calendar from my iPad.

Since she needs the notifications to know when to move from one activity to the other, we can't turn that off either.

The Mac's iCal has a feature "ignore alerts". Where is the equivalent in iPad?


texts: Mac Mail: Replying from "Redirected-to" address

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I'm phasing out a couple email accounts on one domain (call it "olddomain.com"), and replacing them with news ones on a different domain (call it "newdomain.com"). To make the transition easier, I'm using rules to take email sent to the old accounts and redirect it to the new accounts.

Setting up a redirect rule was easy, but I'm left with a problem: when I reply to a redirected email, the From field is set to the old email address (example@olddomain.com). I can, of course, change the From value to the new email account, but this is too easy to forget. It would be much better if the From field were automatically set to example@newdomain.com.

Is it possible to have replies to redirected mail come from the Resent-To address by default in Mail?


texts: What is the X Server equivalent on OSX? I am not looking for XQuartz. What component of the OSX is responsible for rendering graphics? Just as X11 does for *nix.


texts: If somebody has logged onto my iCloud account can they see what I buy or download on the App Store?

texts: If somebody has logged into my iCloud account can they see what I download?


texts: Why are some apps greyed out when Command+Tab'ing through programs?

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Sometimes when I switch through programs using the Command+Tab shortcut certain programs appear to be greyed out. I can switch to the program in question with no problems nor is there anything happening with the program to indicate why it would be greyed out.

I'm just curious as to what it means...

(its a little heard to tell due to me having to screen capture with my phone :p but the quicktime icon is greyed out)

I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8


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I have been trying to adjust the keyboard shortcuts for omnigraffle and for some reason they are completely gone. I am really not sure how this happened but I can not get my zoom keys to work. This is driving me nuts. Any ideas how to fix this?

The docs at omnigraffle show they should be there.  Help?


texts: How can I revoke an applications access to keychain passwords from the command-line?

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Applications can be granted permanent unprompted access to passwords. You can add and revoke these privileges using the Keychain Access utility.  (See this answer)

I'd like to be able to revoke from the command-line. Is this possible?

Specifically, my problem is that I'm creating a password in a shell script and storing it in the keychain using the security add-generic-password ... command. This works fine, but because the security application created the password, it's automatically granted free reading privileges. I want it to prompt every time.


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After upgrading to iOS 7 the standard Notes app crashes when starting it.

I'm running iOS 7.0 and have reproduced this after a clean power down of the phone.


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Is it possible to test the performance of a WiFi via the terminal?

Basically, I want to check how good WiFi is in some spaces of my home to figure out where to place a access points.

Can the terminal help me with that in any way?


texts: Can I connect standard Dell displays to a Thunderbolt iMac?

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Can I connect standard Dell monitors to a Thunderbolt iMac?
I think the Dell monitors are VGA with DVI-D ports.


texts: NTFS-3G auto-mount arguments and disk utility

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I setup NTFS-3G on MacOS Big Sur 11.2 and replaced the default ntfs_mount with NTFS-3G. However, I noticed a problem. Every time I plug in a NTFS I don't see any files show up in finder (but they do show up if I do ls in terminal. I found out that if I add the arguments -olocal -oallow_other -o auto_xattr to the ntfs-3g command then the files show up. Is there a way to automatically mount NTFS drives with these arguments so I don't have to do I manually every time?
Also, I remember seeing the NTFS format option in disk utility. However, it no longer shows up. Is there a way to fix this as well?


texts: How to insert new line on return key press in iMessage on Mac OSX

texts: Does anyone know if it is possible in iMessage on Mac OSX to set the return key to go to the next line instead of sending the message?


texts: Recover deleted Encrypted OS X Extended volume

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I accidentally formatted an external 1TB HD to FAT file system using Disk Utility in Mac OS. The disk used to be HFS+ encrypted. Encryption was done when I created the OS X Extended partition, not using File Vault.

Any chance to recover any data at all? Can I somehow recover the partition information and rebuild the table?


texts: The display fault on my MBP - anyone knows what might be the cause of this and how to fix this?

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A simple background of my MPB:

  macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6 (15-inch, 2016 with TouchBar)
  Processor 2.9GHz Intel Core i7 / Memory 16GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 /
  Graphics: Radeon Pro 460 4096 MB Intel HD Graphics 530 1536MB

Short story: suddenly my MacBook Pro is like this:

The internal display is totally bad, but the external screen is good:

A close up to the internal display - It's only showing a few areas on the top, and it's not refreshing (redrawing) after a few seconds after I unfold it.

Here is a complete story of this:

I was driving to another city (very far) the last Saturday, bringing this MBP with me and there is NO crash or bump on the mountain roads. The traffic is good and I don't have any panic stops. The outer side of MBP itself is always good. And I always kept it in a soft bag.

And I even opened and used the MBP last Saturday night. However, when I arrived at another midpoint last Sunday noon, I open the MBP and it becomes like that. There are about 10 hours between these two usages.

Another detail is that the place I drove about is a bit colder (around 10°C) than my home (around 30°C). And the place I drove about has a higher altitude (about 1,900M) than my home (nearly 0M).

Now I am back home and this problem still exists.

Some other information that I can provide:

I didn't drive very fast.
I used the MBP last Saturday night in a place of nearly altitude 1800M.
I used the MBP WITHOUT its internal display a lot. Since I purchased this MBP, almost 95% of the time I connect it to an external display and do not even turn on the internal screen. (I connect the MBP to an external keyboard and mouse. I will put the MBP sleep after done my work and woke it up by pressing the external keyboard/mouse)

Does anyone have any idea of this?

Thanks,


texts: Change decimal separator in Excel in an old spreadsheet

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I created an Excel spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel Version 15.23.2 while the option for the decimal separator was set to , (comma). This setting had been made in the Language & Region settings of Mac OS X El Capitan. However, I then copied data into it from a csv file that was using . (dot) as the decimal separator. Now, these cells with the dots are not read as numerical, i.e. I cannot sum them up, etc.

I already switched the Language & Region setting under System Preferences to using . (dot) as a decimal separator. (System Preferences -> Language & Region -> Advanced -> Number separators: Grouping: ,, Decimal: .)

Then I restarted the computer, opened my file again, and still the floating point numbers in the same spreadsheet are not recognized as numbers by Excel.
When I open a new Excel spreadsheet, and enter some floating point numbers using the dot separator, these are recognized as floating point numbers.

Did I miss something? Or could I somehow convert my file into a version using the . decimal separator?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Edit: When I copy an entire column with (non-recognized) floating point numbers and paste it into the same place, these cells are then recognized as being numerical. However, when I do this with the entire spreadsheet, it does not work.


texts: Is it possible to defer messages in OS X mail.app till later?

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I want to hide messages until I can act on them. Outlook for iOS has an option of removing messages from inbox and moving them back at a specified time.
Basically if a new message comes in, I need to triage it. If it requires an immediate response I will do so, otherwise I want to "defer" it, but I dont want it to get lost.


texts: How can I divide a range of cells by another range of cells and then sum them up

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I have a table like this

how can I do the same thing in Numbers like this

the screenshot comes from excel, if I do the same thing in Numbers, I will get a complain like this:The range E3:E7 can’t be used as a single value.


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I have a question about duplicate photo libraries that seems the opposite of a previously asked question. In my case, after converting iPhoto library to Photos library, the computer at one point asked if I wanted to convert Photos library to iPhoto library. So I said yes and now have two libraries.
In this case I think each one is taking up 130 GB of space rather than each library pointing to the same photos, and I would like to remove one of them. Is it safe to remove the iPhoto library? Would this also delete the photos used by the Photos library?


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I want to find out what are the default colors of a 3D bar chart in Showroom layout on keynote. When you add a new chart, you get this colors:

But I was unable to find them in the colors palette.


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I have an iPhone 11 Pro running iOS 13.5.1, but this issue has happened since at least iOS 11 (with an iPhone X)

If I either turn off or reset the device, when it reboots, the first app or two that I open will start out okay for a few seconds but will then freeze. If there is a scrolling list, it will stop scrolling. I can't tap on anything until I force quit the app via the multitasking UI and relaunch it.

Has anyone else observed this issue?


texts: Is there a way to reduce the swappiness of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard?

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I have 6GB on my old Macbook, with an SSD.  I would like to avoid writing to the swap file as much as possible.  Ever since my upgrade, I have always had at least 1 to 1.5GB memory "free".  Yet, I have always had 2 to 25MB of used swap space.  (Out of 128MB total)  How do I get this to be 0MB swap used unless I run out of "free" memory?

On Linux, there is now a "swappiness" parameter that controls the tendency to use swap.  I'd like to crank OS X's "swappiness" down very very low, but not deactivate swap entirely.  I'd like to know that my machine will just run slower if it ever runs out of memory instead of having a kernel panic.  I'm pretty close to where I want to be, but I'd like to get rid of these writes to a large file that (slightly) shorten the life of my SSD while doing me no benefit whatsoever.


texts: Is iPod docking station just a USB with a different connector?

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Let's say I'm building a device with an iPod docking connector. Can I use standard software for USB on the device side? Are there any special considerations?

The device is supposed to play audio. Charging is good to have but optional.


texts: What are possible reasons for external keyboard input lag?

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I have a "Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic" keyboard, connected with USB to my Mac 13" (from 2018). The keyboard input starts to lag at some random times. I have been using the keyboard on my older Mac 15" (from 2015) for more than a year and never had a problem. Both Macs are with the same OSX version (Mojave 10.14.4).

I thought the problem is in the batteries (it uses 2xAAA batteries). Changed them with brand new ones. Issue persists.

I tried connecting a Magic Apple keyboard and at moments when the Microsoft keyboard lags, the Apple one does not.

Most often the problem happens within the browser, but continues persisting in Slack, IDEs and other apps. It is strange, thought, that the lag occurrences are not connected to higher load on the CPU or memory.


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Is there any tool that runs on current Macs providing a flashlight effect to highlight a portion on the screen?

In the past I've used OmniDazzle to create screen casts using this effect.
On recent OS X versions it doesn't work any more, though..

Any hint appreciated!


texts: Git clone error after OS X Mountain Lion update

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I just updated my MBP to OSX 10.8 and am trying to start a new project with brunch.io which by default uses coffeescript and I prefer javascript so I need to clone the simple js skeleton. So something like this:

brunch new <someprojectname> --skeleton https://github.com/brunch/simple-js-skeleton.git

Which is what I have used previously and it worked fine. But today I am getting the following error:

error: Git clone error: /bin/sh: git: command not found

I really don't know how to fix this...


texts: In Spotlight search results, how do I find which folder contains a specific file?

texts: In OSX Spotlight, how do I find in which folder a document is? It used to be that hovering the mouse over the doc would show the folder. I miss that functionality!


texts: Why is my iPhone unable to connect to an ad hoc wifi network?

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I'm trying to connect my iPhone 3G(iOS 4.0.2) to an ad hoc wifi network that I've created on my netbook(running Fedora 13).  When I attempt to connect, everything seems to go fine on both ends, however after the connection is established the 3G icon is never replaced by the wifi icon, even though there is a check next to the connection in the wifi selection screen.

I have also attempted to create an ad hoc wifi network on my PowerBook, and have exactly the same issues.  I have also tried putting the phone in Airplane mode, and then connecting to the network but the wifi bars never appear.  I've tested this with a friends iPhone 4 and the same thing happens.

I'm not attempting to share an internet connection over the ad hoc wifi network, my goal is to be able to control my netbook from my iPhone when I'm on the go and away from other wireless networks.


texts: Yosemite: How do increase font size of Eclipse globally?

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Please do not mark this question as duplicate. There are some similar questions, but they are stale. They are about old versions and none of their suggestions solved my issue. (eg: How to increase font size of Eclipse globally?)

I am using eclipse Kepler on Yosemite. I want to change all of my front size in eclipse larger. I am using a 1080p monitor, and it's quite painful to see those small fonts. I found a way to change the package explorer font and java editor font, but I want to change others too. I want to change the fonts in the opened tabs, outline, task and possibly all other views. Is there a way to change them globally? If not, is there a way to change them one by one? I checked "General - Appearance - Colors and Fonts". There is no way to change the fonts on those views.

Here is what I have tried:

change the Colors and Fonts from eclipse preference. It can only change the editor's font.
remove "-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts" from eclipse.ini. It has no effect at all.
modify "eclipse kepler/plugins/org.eclipse.platform_4.3.0.v20130605-2000/css/e4_default_mac.css". I learned how to modify the fonts in package Exploer. I just need to add:

#org-eclipse-jdt-ui-PackageExplorer Tree,
#org-eclipse-ui-navigator-ProjectExplorer Tree {
  font-size: 14px; /* <-- Desired font size */
}

Modifying the css may be a way to change the fonts of other views, but I don't know how.


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I am trying to set up Tunnelblick on my computer. (I have Mac OS X 10.9 on a 13" Macbook Pro with 4GB of RAM.)

I started by downloading Tunnelblick.
Next, Tunnelblick automatically gave me the following file (called "config.ovpn"):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxYI7qMrKuDYV1BGUm4xQkZkbGs/edit?usp=sharing
After that, I followed the instructions by creating a folder called "Empty Tunnelblick VPN configuration" and copying "config.ovpn" to the folder. I then renamed the folder "Empty Tunnelblick VPN configuration.tblk".
I followed another set of instructions and then double-clicked the file "Empty Tunnelblick VPN configuration.tblk". However, I got the following error message:

What did I do wrong? How do I fix this problem?


texts: Can I still use my own apple ID with its asociated credit card when I'm in a family sharing family?

texts: I'm thinking of setting up family sharing for our family. We're all adults, so we buy apps for ourselves, but it would be nice if we could share the apps. Will I lose the ability to buy apps with my own Apple ID if I join my family?


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Currently we are running a system where a group of 12ish Apple Mac computers connect to a Mac Mini Server.

We also have a few off-site teams who need to access said server as well. We would like to know if there's a modern system that allows the user to drop files into a folder which then shares with the server and also shares with the off-site teams. (obviously allowing time for upload/download time)

This would need to be peer-to-peer we do not want to use Cloud Computing.

An example of this being used would be:
Folder on User 1's desktop is populated with files, the same folder appears on the server which also appears on user 2's desktop. Only when the files are requested should they copy from User 1's machine (it would be a 24/7 machine).

I'm aware there are other questions like this on the website already but I couldn't find a definitive answer. We are looking for a professional solution and not necessarily a work around.

Thank you,

Ben


texts: How can I save Keynote presentations as an auto-playing slideshow?

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In MS PowerPoint users can save their presentations as a PowerPoint Show instead of a PowerPoint Presentation.

Besides changing the file extension from .pptx to .ppsx, this option means that upon opening the file it will automatically open in Slideshow mode rather than the typical PowerPoint editing mode. It also means the Slideshow can start playing automatically, so that it moves from slide to slide without user input (if it's been designed to do that).

Is there a similar feature in the Keynote app for macOS? If so, how do I use it?


texts: Where does iTunes store the Podcast subscription info and preferences?

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I'm having iTunes 10.5 problems (crashes on Podcast refresh) and I've been unable to export the subscriptions (the .opml file generated is empty).

Are there text-readable iTunes podcast preferences somewhere, so I can copy the RSS URLs to another podcast client?


texts: MacOS High Sierra - Unable to mount network drive after waking from sleep

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I have a 2017 MBP with MacOS High Sierra. When working from home, I typically connect to my work network via VPN and then I can mount various network drives (SMB).

When my Mac goes to sleep, I seem to automatically lose my active VPN connection and any mounted drives along with it. Strangely, the VPN connection still appears active (the connection timer continues in the menu bar), although any associated functionality is lost.

I can usually reconnect to the VPN without much trouble by disconnecting, then reconnecting as per usual. Unfortunately, I am unable to reconnect to any of the mounted drives. It seems as though my Mac falling asleep and interrupting the VPN connection places the mounted drives in some unusual intermediate state. If I attempt to reconnect to the mounted drives, I hear the system sound that indicates a successful connection and a finder window pops up, but the mounted drive is not visible/accessible.

Using Terminal, if I navigate to /Volumes, indeed I see the previously mounted network drives. However, if I attempt to cd into them, I get the following error:

cd: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Socket is not connected

If I try to unmount the drives using "[sudo] diskutil unmount [force]", then I receive the message:

Unmount failed for /Volumes/DriveName

If I run "smbutil statshares -a", then I receive:

stat_share : SMBOpenServerWithMountPoint() failed for /Volumes/DriveName <DriveName>
stat_all_shares : stat_share() failed for /Volumes/DriveName
smbutil: unknown status -1073741772: No such file or directory

It seems the only way that I can reconnect to the drives is if I reboot my computer, but this is quite disruptive. Further, although I'm not certain, I believe this behaviour arose following my upgrade to High Sierra.

Any other suggestions for how to re-establish connection to these network drives?


texts: How to stop multiple httpd instance in macOS Catalina

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I am not well experienced with macOS yet and need some help to understand why there are multiple instances of httpd running on my macOS Catalina 10.15.4

Question:

If it is not required then how can I stop it all but the only one
which I am using for the development?

Updated

Result with App Processes - Hierarchically

Apache Location

Here is my apache location

➜  ~ which httpd
/usr/local/bin/httpd

apache files path

/usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf
/usr/local/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf


texts: How to stop uTorrent on specific network?

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I go to a university where there is a weekly network usage limit, and I don't want uTorrent sucking it up.

I know the simplest way to go about stopping it is from working is closing it when I get to school or stopping my torrents, but this can result in me forgetting about it.

Is there an automated way to block uTorrent while I'm connected to this specific network?


texts: How do you send mail to Undisclosed Recipients?

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Not something I really ever need to do often, but just how do you send to Undisclosed Recipients in Mail.app

I've seen them arrive looking like this -

but never figured out how I might do it myself

Previously, I've sent to myself, then everybody else as BCC, but is that really the way to do it?


texts: Part of Apple SSD not accessible after failed bootcamp attempt

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A couple of months back I tried installing windows through bootcamp on my system. For reasons I couldn't understand back then (and can't remember now), it failed. And as a result the total accessible size of my SSD somehow got reduced. Recently I upgraded to Catalina and it's still the same. I haven't tried formatting the SSD though. Disk Utility shows me the following:

Can someone please give me a pointer on what might be going wrong here?

[Edit]

diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI NO NAME                 209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         91.6 GB    disk0s2
   3:                        EFI NO NAME                 104.9 MB   disk0s3
   4:         Microsoft Reserved                         16.8 MB    disk0s4
   5:                        EFI NO NAME                 104.9 MB   disk0s5
   6:                        EFI NO NAME                 104.9 MB   disk0s6
   7:                        EFI NO NAME                 104.9 MB   disk0s7
   8:                        EFI NO NAME                 104.9 MB   disk0s8

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +91.6 GB    disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     46.8 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 83.1 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.5 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            10.7 GB    disk1s5

/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *129.8 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh SD            129.4 GB   disk2s2

diskutil info disk0s2 | grep -e Size -e Offset
   Partition Offset:          209735680 Bytes (409640 512-Byte-Device-Blocks)
   Disk Size:                 91.6 GB (91554295808 Bytes) (exactly 178816984 512-Byte-Units)
   Device Block Size:         512 Bytes


texts: Mac Book cannot identify my audio Mixer properly

texts: I bought an Ammoon mixer, but when i plug it into my macbook, instead of showing up as a USB Audio Codec, it shows up as USB headset. I am unable to use it as intended. Anyone able to suggest any solutions?


texts: Mountain Lion: AirPlay doesn't show up (but it works in iTunes)

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I have mountain lion and Apple TV. iTunes only displays the option for AirPlay. But it doesn't display on the OSX top bar.

I have a MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo


texts: Speak text doesn’t work in Messages app on iOS

texts: On most apps on my iPhone (running iOS 13) when I select some text there’s an option to “Speak” the selected text which works fine. However in the Messages app when I long press on a message and choose “Speak” nothing happens. I’ve noticed this issue with two of my friend's phones as well. Any idea how to fix this?


texts: How can I increase font size in Spotlight

texts: When I write 7/3 in spotlight it automatically shows result but the font is too small and doesn't have enough contrast. Is there a way to increase the size of the result font or all Spotlight fonts in general?


texts: I have never seen this "Sign in..." message before downloading

texts:
I Am wondering why I am getting the message [above] all of the sudden. As far as I know I am already signed in. Why is this message being displayed, rather than the one similar to the one in the 2nd image:

Have I been hacked?


texts: Loading Any USB Flash Drive onto an iOS Device

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I have a SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 flash drive with 32 GB storage on it, and would like to view its contents on my iPhone. I have seen flash drives that are made particularly for iOS devices and have their own companion apps for viewing the files, but I already have this flash drive, and would like to be able to use it or any other flash drive for that matter on my phone.

So far, I have looked into using adapters that I can use to plug the flash drive into my phone using the lightning cable, but have only found micro USB adapters.

Another issues is that I am unsure of how I would view the files even if I could connect the flash drive to my iPhone; would I need a special file browser like this, or is there an app I an use?

In general, then:

Is there any way to load any run-of-the-mill flash drive onto an iPhone and view its contents, whether through an app or a file browser (installed on the device)?


texts: Can apps access my camera without telling me?

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Suppose I give an app permission to access my camera (and/or microphone) to take a picture.  After I take the picture, can the app access my camera without prompting me?

I thought of this while using the Facebook messenger app.  The app allows you to take pictures and send them directly into your Facebook messages. Can the app also "look" through my camera while I am scrolling through contacts (or doing anything else unrelated to photos)?

Apologies if this has already been answered.


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I have the iPod touch 4th generation running jailbroken iOS 6.1.6.

The iPod is working fine except for when I lock it. When I try to wake it back up again, it doesn't come on. If I leave it for like a minute after trying to turn it on, it restarts the whole iPod for some reason.

Any ideas?


texts: MacOS, Can I troubleshoot a program that is not working from a console log/is it safe to post here?

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I'm pretty sure it's not safe to paste console logs because it has personal information but just wanted to make sure.
I have a program called sidenotes for MacOS, I kind of need it as an intermediary to quickly jot down ideas between slower note taking apps, because I have a memory like that guy from Memento and this app is fast to write things down and I like it
Anyway, it works in my guest account, in main account it does not, it loses focus and refreshes every few seconds, won't let me type, and is generally messed up, I emailed with dev but he doesn't know. It's probably one of my many other apps/daemons/agents conflicting, but I tried
disabling all apps I could find, (can't quit the agents/daemons)
moving all library launch agents into a folder called disabled (although I didn't restart, maybe that was necessary)
taking out most apps from user account login items
ran a python script in terminal that shows which program has focus, the broken program does indeed have focus
nothing worked, so I'm messing with console, ran the broken program, selected all and copy pasted to a text, but I have no idea what to make of the information, anything to look for?


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texts: Revert back from a BT dongle 4.0 to internal bluetooth controller won't work

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When the Mac mini 2018 was released, I was experiencing Magic Mouse 2 issues (choppiness, etc), like many others, so I decided to get a Bluetooth 4.0 dongle (IOGear GBU521) and see if the problem would go away. It did...
I plugged in the new adapter, went into Bluetooth Explorer, under "HCI Controller Selector" selected my adapter "Broadcom Corp, Location ID XXXXXXX", made it ACTIVE and I was good to go. From memory, I don't believe I did anything else to get this to work. One thing though. When I would reboot, it would go back to the internal Bluetooth controller so after reading about it, I used this Terminal code sudo nvram bluetoothHostControllerSwitchBehavior=always and all was good...
A year later and after moving my workstation around, I would like to go back to using the internal Bluetooth controller but it seems I can't.
This is what I did... I unplugged the dongle and the mouse and keyboard no longer show under the Bluetooth devices panel, for me to Connect to. So I tried the following...
1- Unplugged all devices and hubs going to the Mac mini except for a wired mouse, keyboard and monitor so I can set things up.
2- I entered this code in Terminal sudo nvram -d bluetoothHostControllerSwitchBehavior (to go back to the default setting).
3- I trashed com.apple.bluetooth.plist & com.apple.bluetooth.xxxxxxxxxx (random numbers and letters)
4- Shift-Option to Debug (Reset the Bluetooth Module, Factory reset all connected Apple devices, Remove all devices) re-booted.
5- PRAM (Option-Command-P-R)
6- SMC (Unplug AC cord, 15 seconds, replug and wait 5 seconds) Reboot.
I'm not sure what I may be missing here but all that I've tried so far isn't working and I've tried it multiple times. Maybe there's a Kext file I need to delete (replace) but I'm not sure what to do. I know I can plug the dongle back in again, and the mouse and keyboard will show up in the Bluetooth panel but I shouldn't have to anymore. Actually, when I also plug in an older Bluetooth 2.0 dongle, I'm able to connect devices to it. Very strange.
Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Thank you.
A little more info after the original post:
I'd like to add that I installed a fresh copy of 10.15.5 on anther SSD, and nothing else installed, and still, I can't get the internal Bluetooth controller to see my devices. If I do add a dongle (4.0, 2.0), all is fine.
Also, my own Diagnostics (press D when booting up) came back with no issues.


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I'm trying to remove the "Sleep" button from the login window on some of my Mac's to prevent inadvertently disabling access to the remote server.

How to disable the sleep button from Mac OS X login screen?


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I got the new Photos app + iCloud photos library going. It's great

But if I want to send an email from, say Gmail, and include a photo from my computer..

I can't choose from my photo library

The photos folder simply cannot be chosen when browsing local folders

So I have to first drag the photos to the desktop, for example, and THEN choose these files from gmail, and delete them afterwards

Is there not any other easy way to do this?

Thanks


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I am trying to find how to enable and disable the Swipe between pages gesture via the defaults command either system wide or just for Safari. I can't do it manually as we will need to do this on machines on mass.

Setting in the UI is located at "Apple>System Preferences>Trackpad>More Gestures". I have looked all over the net and found plenty of enteries for Chrome but none for Safari.

I have tried adding AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls to com.apple.Safari with defaults but doesn't seem to work at all.