texts: What should I be using instead of `dig`?

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I stopped using nslookup a decade ago because dig superseded it. Now I'm creating custom files in /etc/resolver/ and finding that everything works... except dig (and nslookup).

Actually, I'd prefer to fix dig than to use something else. I write a lots of scripts that use those common tools. I don't like having to code 2 different solutions.


texts: Cannot sync Google Drive between MacBook and iPhone app

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On my iPhone I installed GoogleDrive 'Drive' app.

On my MacBook I installed Backup and sync from Google.app, which has created a ~/google-drive/ folder.

I have set the account to my@gmail.com and put some files and folders in it.

On my iPhone app I also set the account to my@gmail.com. I can see some of the older folders. These appear to match that on my MacBook, although the contained files are out of date. I can also see a file dated about a week ago which I have since deleted on my MacBook.

Files I have added/removed within the last 24 hours on my MacBook simply don't register on the iPhone.

It seems clear that the devices are out of sync. But they're both connected to my apartment's Wi-Fi.

I can't find any sync button / menuitem.

This is very frustrating.

What is going on? I was hoping that Google Drive would be my solution for distributed storage.

EDIT:  The Google Drive web-app (Chrome -> drive.google.com/drive/u/1/my-drive) does sync ok with my macbook. Which suggests an issue with the iPhone Drive app, maybe?


texts: Mobile Safari requires external Javascript from another domain which is blocked or failed to load

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When using Mobile Safari on my iPhone (4, iOS 5.0.1) to view this site, I am not able to log in using the top right drop down arrow that is seen on the mobile view.  Nor am I able to enter the full site rather than use the mobile version.  Both of these buttons "click" (in that they highlight as if pressed when I touch them) but nothing happens at all.

At the bottom of the page is a notice that reads "Apple requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load."

However, when I follow a link to this site within Twitter, using the in-app webview without loading it directly in Mobile Safari this error does not show, and I am able to log in and enter the full site without any issues.

I don't know when this started happening, but I am sure it used to work, and other users of matching kit report that it works for them.  It's possible that this happens on other sites that use JavaScript, but this is the only one I have noted it on thus far.

To fix it, I have already tried the following:
1) Clear History
2) Clear Cookies and Data
3) Turned JavaScript on and off
4) Hard reset the phone
5) Removed all Website Data


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I recently had to reinstall the OS on my MacBook Pro.  I used MobileMe to sync a bunch of my settings back to my computer (including Keychains), and now I can't see any of my Keychain passwords.  If I try to view an item and check the "Show password" or "Show note" checkbox, I get a little alert that says "Access to this item is restricted".  However, the Access Control tab for that same item has the "Allow all apps access" option selected, with the description saying "Access to this item is not restricted".

Things I've found/tried:

Keychain First Aid reports no errors with my keychain.
There is nothing in my ~/Library/Keychains/.syncinfo folder.
Creating a new default keychain a re-syncing from MobileMe does not fix the issue.

What do I need to do to fix my keychain?  I have a bunch of stuff in there (mostly application license keys) that I'd rather not lose.


texts: Safari in a strange mode where pages randomly zoom in and pages slide to the right

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Recently Safari has gotten into a mode where unwanted events are happening.  Pages I'm viewing will randomly zoom in with no known way to zoom out. Pages will also "slide" off the app by sliding finger across mouse.

I've tried restarting Safari and I've tried restarting my computer. Neither of these helped.  I have a "Zoom" extension for Safari but I've turned it off.


texts: How can I find what swcdn is trying to download?

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I have two mac computers. One of them is constantly downloading from swcdn.apple.com, the other does not. My guess is that swcdn stands for SoftWare Content Delivery Network. I have a limited internet connection and swcdn.apple.com is often consuming my connection preventing other work. Using Little Snitch, I can see nsurlsessiond is making connections to mesu.apple.com and swcdn.apple.com. I have disabled automatic software updates.
How can I find what my computer is downloading or streaming from swcdn.apple.com?


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Is there a tool for OSX or Windows that will automatically download all the current iOS ipsw files?

I work at a school and when someone has a problem with an iPad and we need to restore it, we have to wait for iTunes or Apple Configurator to download the latest update.
It would be really handy if we could automatically pre download the IPSW files so that they were ready to go as soon as they were needed.
Any ideas?


texts: Comparing MacBook Air sleep resume times

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Q1. Which MacBook Air models have the fastest resume-from-sleep times?

In other words, how long does it take (in the most common scenario, not the theoretically-shortest) between opening the display lid and getting a keypress echoed in an open TextEdit window?

Q2.  Do the newer (or newest) MBA's have faster resume time?

Q3.  How does this compare to the resume time of the iPad?

For the purpose of these questions, milliseconds matter!


texts: How long to hold key combinations when booting a Mac?

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I can't believe no one has ever asked this, but I can't seem to find it:

How long should you hold down key combinations, such as Command + S, while your Mac is booting? I can get this iMac to boot into safe mode (sometimes), but not Single User, Verbose, or Diagnostic modes, which seems strange to me, thus I assume I'm not doing something correctly.

Do you just hold the keys briefly or hold the keys for longer? If the latter, how long exactly? This iMac just has that gray boot screen, and there's no indication that anything is happening, so I have no way of knowing when I should stop pressing the key combos or if pressing them is even doing anything.


texts: Adjust horizontal scrolling speed on a mouse or trackpad independent of the vertical speed

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I have recently bought a Logitech M510 as my main mouse switching over from a magic mouse. I didn't realize missing horizontal scrolling would be such an issue, but apparently it is.

Now a mac does support horizontal scrolling by holding shift + scrolling, this is however amazingly slow.

I have the Logitech Control Center installed, which offers a few extra options, but nothing regarding the horizontal scroll speed. The scrolling speed options offered there only affect vertical scrolling.

Can the vertical speed be one setting and the horizontal speed another?


texts: I can't reinstall my OS X El Capitan. "Please Run Install OS X El Capitan.app"

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I'm in recovery mode, but when I try to reinstall the OS this shows to me.

I've entry to the terminal of Recovery OS. And I found that file .app

In other forum I found that the solution is move that file to the folder Applications. But I can't. I've tried to copy and move, but nothing happens.

Trying to copy

cp -R /"Install OS X El Capitan".app /Applications

Trying to move


texts:
Trying to block incoming traffic on all interfaces to a specific local port on Mac OS X 10.11.15, including loopback.

This is my /etc/pf.conf:

scrub-anchor "com.apple/*"
nat-anchor "com.apple/*"
rdr-anchor "com.apple/*"
dummynet-anchor "com.apple/*"
anchor "com.apple/*"
load anchor "com.apple" from "/etc/pf.anchors/com.apple"

block in quick to any port 63342

However, when attempting to apply this rule, I get an error (line 29 is the one with the block rule):

✗ sudo pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf
pfctl: Use of -f option, could result in flushing of rules
present in the main ruleset added by the system at startup.
See /etc/pf.conf for further details.

No ALTQ support in kernel
ALTQ related functions disabled
/etc/pf.conf:29: port only applies to tcp/udp
/etc/pf.conf:29: skipping rule due to errors
/etc/pf.conf:29: rule expands to no valid combination
pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded

What would be the correct syntax in this case?


texts: How can I create 'gch.app' such that "open -a gch page.html" works like "open -a Google\ Chrome page.html"?

texts:
I type open -a all the time from the terminal, and more often than not the application I want is Google Chrome.app, so I end up entering things along the lines of:

open -a Google\ Chrome some_file.html

I'd like to create a symlink/shortcut to /Applications/Google Chrome.app named gch.app or what have you, so I can open -a gch foo.html which is slightly quicker.

Admittedly it'd take months+ to recoup the amount of time it's taken me to ask this question...  I know I could create zsh aliases and/or bash functions for this kind of thing but I'm relatively new to OSX and want to learn.

My first intuition was to try things along the lines of:

ln -s /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app /Applications/gch.app

but no dice were had.


texts: Why does an iPhone rename itself with (2)

texts: My son's find my iphone page, when I looked today after his phone number it has (2) - right after it. Yesterday it did not, and none of our other devices have that. Just wondering what that stands for?


texts:
is there a Google Talk (gChat) client for iOS that:

does not prevent messages showing up in other clients
does not alter or send messages, add signatures or other spam?


texts: How to make Spotlight index shell script wrapper applications?

texts:
You can create executable Application Bundles containing a script with the same name (e.g. Example.app and Example.app/Example).

Unfortunately, these applications do not seem to get indexed by Spotlight.

Automator does make it easy to wrap scripts as applications, but it does not find applications that are not in the default path (e.g. wine installed via homebrew). Sourcing shell init files does not seem to help with that, and while I could use absolute paths, I'd rather have the scripts be portable.

I would prefer to understand and fix the underlying problem than having to use another tool like Platypus.


texts: Looking for an iOS app to announce the time

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Is there an application for iOS devices similar to "Announce the time" feature in Mac OS X? This feature simply announces time every hour/half hour/quarter hour with preselected voice.

My idea is that I would start playing music or podcast or run some game, and this app would announce the time in timely fashion (from the background). I searched the App Store for some obvious keywords, but didn't find anything useful yet.


texts: How can I use the automator to create text-to-speech service that talks faster than the current service?

texts:
The text-to-speech service has a speaking rate option that goes from slow to fast. But the fast option is not fast enough (its 300 words per minute).

I just tried to create a service. I simply dragged the "Speak text" action, saved it and tested it. It seems that my new service still relies on the speed option specified in the preferences.

Is there a way for me to tell it something like "render speech at 400wpm"


texts:
About a week ago, I installed an application in my MacBook from a dubious source. Since then I noticed some weird behaviours.

First, while I was making a bank transfer in Safari, I got the following popup warning:

  “Safari” would like to control this computer using accessibility
  features

I denied the access, as it never asked for it before and I saw no reason to grant it.

A couple of days later, while I was browsing, I clicked on a google result and got redirected to a blank page. I thought the site was not working so I clicked back. I then got this message:

Which was not the site I clicked at all in Google results. I got back to Google results and clicked again on the same result. I was redirected to the correct page without any problem.

I got suspicious and installed Antivirus Thor Lite from the App Store. It detected several infected files with Pua.Win.Trojan. But I think that these are files infected with Windows viruses and that they don't compromise my Mac. Malwarebytes does not detect any issue either.

Right now I'm suspecting that I may be somehow infected. What do you guys think? Whats the best way to know for sure if I'm infected?


texts: iOS App Development choice in Certificates greyed out

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I am new to iOS App Development and my account type is individual. I already created 2 apps with valid dev certificates(unexpired as they are still new created this April) but when I create a 3rd app and added a 3rd development certificate under Certificates tab in memberscenter, the iOS App Development choice is greyed out.

I tried revoking the previous 2 certificates because I can create new ones later anyway, and fortunately, I was able to create a certificte for my 3rd app. Now, I wanted to add again the certificates of the previous 2 apps, but then, the iOS App Development choice is greyed out again.

Any help? I'm new to this.

FYI, when I requested a certificate from a certificate authority in keychain, I am using my developer email and saved it to disk.


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut in OS X Mavericks for quick reply when an iMessage notification appears?

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I found it not that efficient to move the mouse pointer over the notification and click on the reply button every time.

So I was wondering if there is a hotkey for quick reply instead of using the mouse or the trackpad.


texts: Pre-installed movies and photos on new MBA

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MBA 13"

I when I got it home for the first time. I switched it on I checked how much disk space I had left. I was surprised to see 45MB of movies and photos 471MB.

I can't find the movies and the photos in the finder window. Where are they and what are they?

Many thanks for any suggestions.


texts: Can't enable iCloud Desktop Documents Sync in Sierra

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Every time I try to enable iCloud Desktop and Documents Sync it spins the spinner for a while and it looks like the setting is enabled, but as soon as I reopen settings it is deselected.

Console produces errors like these:

bird [ERROR] can't open Documents or Desktop <private>; error 2 (<private>)
bird [ERROR] Failed to apply sync policy: -1 for folder type: 2, error: <private>
accountsd [ERROR] iCloud Desktop Settings change failed: <private>, resetting to old value

Any suggestions?


texts: Enable full-screen mode for applications on Lion

texts: There some applications which I can not yet run in full-screen mode. I particularly would need the OSX Terminal app and possible the TextEdit. However, after the upgrade they remained the same, and does not have the full screen button in the top right corner. How can I enable Lion style full-screen mode for there applications?


texts: MacBook Pro unable to communicate with Apple Watch

texts:
Apple Watch won't unlock MacBook Pro

Up until yesterday, my MacBook Pro worked just fine with my Apple Watch - I walk up, touch the keyboard or trackpad, Mac unlocks and I get to work. No worries! Yesterday something changed and now my watch won’t unlock my laptop.

I’ve tried everything in the Apple Support post, including repairing my phone/watch, re-establishing two-factor authentication (2FA), and rebooting my laptop, iPhone, and watch. All to no avail. I tried the @Morwen suggestion with Messages because there was a gap in my message history, but that didn't do it.

When I try to enable my watch, I get the error message shown below (albeit after about 6 or 7 minutes later, not quickly like the gif image). My watch, iPhone, and MacBook are all signed in and communicating with Apple.

The only thing I can think of that might play into this is that I was setting up a personal VPN on my home router last night, but I’ve turned that off as part of my troubleshooting (and couldn’t replicate the issue).

Digging a little further, I found this message (repeatedly since yesterday) in my Console logs. It looks like I have two permissions conflicting, but I can't tell which is which, nor where to go to change one of them...

  Oct 21 02:17:54 Johns-MBP
  com.apple.preference.security.remoteservice[790]: objc[790]: Class
  AWDSecurityPrefAutoUnlockSetup is implemented in both
  /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Security.prefPane/Contents/XPCServices/com.apple.preference.security.remoteservice.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.preference.security.remoteservice
  (0x10d6018e0) and
  /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Security.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/Security
  (0x10fd0b210). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.

Environment includes:

2017 15" MacBook Pro with Mojave (updated)
Apple Watch Series 3 with Cellular (updated)


texts: As you can see my screen, it gives impression something got scratched on it but that's not the case. What can I do?


texts:
I would like to make a bootable USB flash drive with Diskwarrior, techtool pro, and some other utilities. Does anyone have any suggestions as to the best way to go about doing this?

I was hoping to keep the total image unter 8GB, but I could do 16.


texts: Can I release as opensource an iPad application I develop?

texts:
Suppose I want to develop for iPad or iPhone. Can I release the code of this application on a public git repo, and under an opensource license ?

(side comment: I consider shocking that I have to ask such a question, since the software is mine, but considering the times we live in...)


texts: How to reinstall Java 6, for development for Android, on Mountain Lion?

texts:
Requirement

Java 6 for Android development on Mountain Lion.

Question

Is it possible? What can I do?

I've looked everywhere for a way to do this and am unable to find any solution.

Background

I recently installed Oracle's Java 7 for OS X on my Mac running Mountain Lion (10.8.2). I was happy with this until I started doing Android development, which throws errors relating to Java 7.

I downloaded Apple's Java for OS X Lion Update 1, but when I try to install it I get only this message before Installer closes:

  A newer version of this package is already installed.

I followed Oracle's instructions (Mac FAQ), but they seem to not work for me. Afterwards if I do java -version it still says Java 7.

I even tried restarting my computer, to no avail.

Before I tried to reinstall Java 6, Apple's Java Preferences utility (described by Oracle) was present, but after trying all these things I am also without Java Preferences.


texts: Chrome showing the site's security certificate is not trusted for GitHub

texts:
Today, out of no-where Chrome just started showing invalid SSL certificate errors for popular sites like Github, Stripe, etc.

The site's security certificate is not trusted!

I know the SSL certificates are valid, because my iMac on the same network works just fine.

I've cleared all cached and settings. Reinstalled chrome to the latest version. Checked that date/time set to automatically update in OSX.

Honestly, not sure what is going on.


texts: Is Photo compression-ratio for JPEG exports too high?

texts:
Despite selecting the High option when exporting JPEG images from Photo, I am finding the file size at destination is around 3MB - 60% smaller than when I exported the same images from iPhoto with the High option. Image size is unaffected. If Photo is compressing JPEG images more during export than iPhoto, I fear the image quality is also being reduced. Is this correct?

There is a possibility that Photo is actually extra-compressing images at the import stage, not during export. Or both!


texts: Does Frequently used Memoji History reset If not used

texts: This is a very important topic for me. The love of my life saw frequently used Memoji on my phone that she questioned.   I don’t blame her, I would have asked also. my question is how long do “Frequently used Memoji” stay listed when not used. These Memoji where from before I met her. Will the frequently used memoji reset to a default When not used or stay at the last used for ever?  Where do I find documentation on  the Algorithm to show her they are not recent and just last used from long ago?  Thanks.


texts: What are some ways to work with / search flagged emails on iOS?

texts:
The Mail App on iOS 5 adds support for flagging emails, but I can't seem to find a way to actually put this feature to use.

Is there a way to search for flagged emails?

Is there a way to cleverly auto-filter flagged emails into a folder?

I know that using GMail as an IMAP server automatically duplicates flagged messages in the "Starred" folder - but if you are using another email service, is there any way to make flags useful on iOS?


texts: How can I average numbers using Soulver?

texts:
I have a license for the excellent app, Soulver. I'd like to use it to find the average of some integers. I'd like to do something like:

avg(199, 262, 219, 268, 285, 293)

However, that doesn't work:

Any suggestions on how to do this with Soulver?


texts: How can I make my iPhone 5S go back to charging from my Dell Windows laptop USB port?

texts:
My iPhone 5s, when connected to my Windows 10 Dell laptop, has recently started connecting & charging then immediately disconnecting and ending charging. I get the "double buzz" of connection, immediately followed by a single buzz indicating it has stopped charging, and the "charging" lightning-bolt symbol disappears.

How can I fix this (asking and answering for future generations)?


texts:
is it possible to change my i5 iwy bridge CPU with an i7 one in my mid 2012 mbp?
My mbp is a non retina model.


texts:
I am using a Logitech Mouse on my Mac and want to inverse the zoom direction inside Sketch (maybe in the whole system - until now I only zoomed in Sketch). How can that be done? I am scrolling using the mouse wheel. Thanks!

Note: I am talking about zooming, not about scrolling (the later one can easily be changed in the Mac OS options).


texts:
How can I import iCal event into Lion from either an iPhone or Snow Leopard?

I have a Time Machine backup from Snow Leopard, and an iPhone, each with up-to-date iCal calendars. I have a clean Lion install with no iCal events. I would like to get the iCal in Lion up-to-date, either from Time Machine or the iPhone.

I have tried syncing the phone, but nothing happens to either device. I have tried manually moving files from Time Machine, but the Lion iCal does not recognize anything.


texts: Can I create an Apple Shortcut which itself creates an Apple Shortcut?

texts:
I would like to create an automation wizard for getting a complicated task done, on an iPad. Built with Apple Shortcuts, it would ask you to enter the general objective of the project, then the primary sub-tasks of that objective, then respectively the primary sub-tasks of each sub-task, and so on. At the end, it would create an Apple Shortcut which has a series of nested menus listing the sub-tasks of each task.
Is there any way to use Apple Shortcuts, including some of the more powerful tools included in it such as Python scripting, to automate the process of making an Apple Shortcut, as in the above example?


texts: In Mountain Lion, my full name is displayed at the right of the menu bar (between the time and the search icon, to be specific). As it takes a lot of space, I was wondering if there is a way to hide this?


texts: If my wife moves from her iCloud storage to the family shared iCloud will she lose her files?

texts:
As the title suggests - my wife uses her iCloud storage and is getting ready to get charged.  I'd like to move her to our family iCloud storage but want to make sure she doesn't lose any of her files in the change.

Does this change just effect the storage location of the information or would it delete any information she has in her cloud?


texts: My iPad air2, locks up usually once a day...when rotate, screen stays in either the landscape or portrait made. Have to force off. Ok when I turn it back on. 2 years old, this started in past month or so.


texts: Dual monitors waking from sleep very slow?

texts:
I have 2 EIZO screens via Thunderbolt/Display port connected to my MacPro (2013 cylinder).

One day I press a key and the screen comes on straight away after sleep, the other day it can easily take 20-30 seconds. I can not find any pattern.

I'm pretty sure the mac self wakes-up, its just the signal to the screens that is in some cases delayed.

Anybody an idea what might to cause that?

Thanks!


texts: How do I get drivers for Windows 10 x64 installed on my Mac?

texts:
I've just installed windows 10 x64 on my mac, a partition that I made with Disk Utility. I was going to use BootCamp however the way BootCamp formatted the partition in El Capitan didn't allow Windows to be installed (I believe it was because of not formatting it correctly).

So now I've got it all installed however the drivers aren't (headphones and Wifi don't work; plus I'm not sure it's using my graphics card either).

How do I go about installing the drivers I need for this version of Windows?


texts: How to sync podcasts from iPod Classic to iTunes on other PC?

texts:
I have a new Windows PC and copying the settings and iTunes folders from the old machine did not work.
I want to have the downloaded podcast episodes and the subscriptions that I have on my iPod Classic on the new PC.
Can I somehow sync them from the iPod to iTunes?


texts: What can someone access on my device if they have set up iCloud?

texts:
My dad has given me an iPhone 5s and he has set up iCloud on it. Which he may access. Will he know about whatever I do?

If yes is it possible for me to stop this without him knowing about it? I am using an iPhone for the first time.


texts: Does the Apple Watch Studio offer any band types that can't be purchased from the Apple Store directly?

texts: Last September, Apple introduced both an online and in-store experience called the Apple Watch Studio that allows a customer to pick and choose both a Watch case and band type (https://www.macrumors.com/2019/09/10/apple-watch-studio-1000-combinations/). At the time, it was mentioned that over 1000 combinations of case and band could be paired - this got me thinking as to whether there are bands that can be chosen via the Studio that arn't available to purchase from the Apple Store - otherwise I can't figure out how the 1000 combinations can be made! :) Does anybody know if this is the case?


texts:
After upgrading OSX to Yosemite and Skype to 7.7 (335), Skype gets stuck on "Signing in..." when starting.

It does sign in, as Contacts > Add Contact forces the main window to open, but "Signing in..." never goes away.

Already tried, but didn't work:

Signing out, quitting ("Signing in..." stays even when signed out), then signing back in.
Everything on the Skype support page for Why can't I sign in to Skype for Mac OS X?.
Removing ~/Library/Application Support/Skype.
Reinstalling Skype

I'm using my Microsoft ID to sign in.

Any clues?

Following the @Buscar advice I used nettop in terminal to monitor Skype connections.

After quitting Skype, I see 3 connections still there about 20 seconds after quitting. Two of them use port 443 (status LastAck and FinWait1), the other is on a high port (12k+), status FinWait1. Last one to go away is to blu403-m.hotmail.com:443 with status FinWait1.


texts: Does deleting a Facebook account in my iPhone Settings delete the actual Facebook account?

texts:
I have a hand-me-down iPhone 4S from my wife running iOS 6.1.3. I have deleted the Facebook app. However other apps (like Instagram) still think my wife's Facebook account is linked to the phone and log in using her account.

In the iPhone's Settings app, there is still a Facebook subsection which lists my wife's account. There is a big red button to delete the account. This seems like the thing to do. But before I do, I want to confirm that doing so will only delete the account from this iPhone, NOT her actual Facebook account, which she naturally still wants to access from the web, her new phone, etc.

So -- safe to hit the big red button in this case?


texts: See the number of open windows for an app in the macOS Dock

texts:
I have multiple Google Chrome windows open at a tune. How can I see the number of open windows in the Dock?

I'd like to add something like a second indicator under the app's Dock icon.

Also, I'd like to be able to choose the window when I click the icon and not use a long click to be able to chose the window to open.

The Dock settings doesn't provide any way to configure this.


texts: How do I enroll devices while "Can enable remote management" is disabled?

texts:
I'm deploying a large number of iPads and Mac Minis in my environment, and I need to be able to enroll them so they can be managed by my server.

In my server "Profile Manager" there is a setting to "Can Enable Remote Management".

By enabling this, I can Enroll a device through the http://myserver/mydevices/ page

If I disable the "Can Enable Remote Management" feature, the "Enroll this mac" button disappears.

This is to be expected since once I have the remote management enabled, I don't want any other users monkeying with it, removing the trust certificate, or otherwise vandalizing my hard work.

What is the right way to mass deploy these devices to my network, ensuring they can't be changed by the users, and disabling the ability for the end user to enable/disable remote management.


texts: "Permission denied (publickey)" every time I try to push to git

texts:
I've recently faced a problem: each time I try to push to git repository (in my case, Bitbucket), I get that error:

$ git push origin master
git@bitbucket.org: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

I've found a way to solve it by running these commands:

eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-add -l
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

If I'll do this and then try to git push origin master, it'll work. But the problem is, this issue starts to appear after some time (probably after reboot, I'm not sure what causes it to appear again). UPD: it's most likely not caused by rebooting, cause I've just faced it 10 minutes after executing the code above, and got the same error. I didn't reboot my laptop since then.

What can cause such a behaviour and how can I fix this?


texts: How to unlock my new iPad by just sliding to the right?

texts:
On my iPad mini, when the screen is locked, I unlock it by just sliding to the right. This is very nice.

I want to be able to do the same on my all new iPad Air 2.

It seems that the only way to do that is to turn off Touch ID (the fingerprint reading). I don't want to turn off Touch ID.

How can I be able to unlock my new iPad by just sliding to the right? Without turning off Touch ID.

On the new iPad, I have iOS 8.2.


texts:
I have a Time Machine drive which was previously used to back up my old Mac. Since that machine died I'm using it to back up my new Mac. This means there are two folders in the time machine's backup folder - one for the old machine, one for the new machine.

The new machine's Time Machine app does not show me the content of the old machine's backups.

I would like to rescue/extract the important files (such as Pictures folders etc) from the old machine's backups.

I know TM files are not stored contiguously but as it does not provide a granular management tool, is there a way to extract/copy files from a Time Machine history which the current machine does not see?


texts: Can't access Amazon S3 bucket after mounting using s3fs

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I have been trying to mount an Amazon S3 bucket as a OSX volume using the s3fs command line tool (installed from Homebrew). The issue is that although I run the s3fs command as per the instructions (here, for Mac-specific, or here more generally), and it returns no errors, when I attempt to cd to the mounted volume the I get the following error:

mkdir /Volumes/s3

sudo /usr/local/bin/s3fs mybucket /Volumes/s3
Password:

cd /Volumes/s3
cd: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories:
No such file or directory

The install went off without a hitch, and all dependencies appeared to have installed correctly, so I don't think that that's an issue (obviously, I could be wrong). I also know that I can't simply mount the volume, as it is not in a file system native to OSX.

I know that s3fs isn't terribly well-documented for Mac users, but perhaps somebody here has some experience getting this to work. Thank you in advance.

I am using OSX Lion 10.7.4.


texts: MBP 13" 2017 nTB external display issues when used with 2 DELL external displays

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I have a MBP 13" nTB 2017 which i am intending to use with 2 DELL monitors (U2414H and U2417H) as extended desktops.

However, i am facing some weird issue with the display issues shown in this video.

persistent screen blanking out and weird glitches. Screen will blank out intermittently and seemingly shift left or right across the screen (similar to when trying to switch between windows on mac)

How to replicate this issue:

whichever monitor that is connected second will have that display issue regardless of the setup i have tried which are mentioned below
(e.g connect monitor A then monitor B, monitor B will have that display issue and vice versa)

What i have tried:

Initially both monitors were connected to the usb-c ports via HDMI-usbc adapters. I figured that could be cause of the issue.
i got a new displayport-usbc cable for one of the monitors and gave it a try. Issue mentioned above still persists.

Anyone experienced this issue before? Thank you.


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I have upgraded my Mac to High Sierra. So I was just looking at the features when I saw APFS container in Disk Utility. I googled it and found out that it is used for multiple logical drives but I thought I don't require it so is it safe to delete the containers?

PS. I would also like to know the other features of APFS containers.

Output of diskutil apfs list:

APFS Container (1 found)
|
+-< Container disk1 2EE47F12-9699-433D-AECF-167CB27FDDF0
    ====================================================
    APFS Container Reference:     disk1
    Capacity Ceiling (Size):      121123069952 B (121.1 GB)
    Capacity In Use By Volumes:   39590055936 B (39.6 GB) (32.7% used)
    Capacity Available:           81533014016 B (81.5 GB) (67.3% free)
    |
    +-< Physical Store disk0s2 7E9192B8-7976-4CBF-AE7C-C7B9D5E49F65
    |   -----------------------------------------------------------
    |   APFS Physical Store Disk:   disk0s2
    |   Size:                       121123069952 B (121.1 GB)
    |
    +-> Volume disk1s1 578EF44C-A052-3F3F-BBE4-B254D82C57F2
    |   ---------------------------------------------------
    |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s1 (No specific role)
    |   Name:                      Macintosh HD (Case-insensitive)
    |   Mount Point:               /
    |   Capacity Consumed:         37848293376 B (37.8 GB)
    |   Encrypted:                 No
    |
    +-> Volume disk1s2 2DC1D14B-7E91-4F17-83CE-40E5435303FE
    |   ---------------------------------------------------
    |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s2 (Preboot)
    |   Name:                      Preboot (Case-insensitive)
    |   Mount Point:               Not Mounted
    |   Capacity Consumed:         21651456 B (21.7 MB)
    |   Encrypted:                 No
    |
    +-> Volume disk1s3 3C4A7A25-7E07-48EC-B942-4DA9007D1538
    |   ---------------------------------------------------
    |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s3 (Recovery)
    |   Name:                      Recovery (Case-insensitive)
    |   Mount Point:               Not Mounted
    |   Capacity Consumed:         519995392 B (520.0 MB)
    |   Encrypted:                 No
    |
    +-> Volume disk1s4 57093D4B-CDF1-4286-BC5C-6ED2DB620DD1
        ---------------------------------------------------
        APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s4 (VM)
        Name:                      VM (Case-insensitive)
        Mount Point:               /private/var/vm
        Capacity Consumed:         1073762304 B (1.1 GB)
        Encrypted:                 No


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Phone Numbers to be ignored

I'm looking for software that can hide incoming sms and call for certain number for iPhone.
Is there any suggestion?
No Jailbreak please.


texts:
Whenever I connect my Mac FireWire-to-HDMI to a large-screen TV, the resolution on my MacBook Air 11″ becomes larger and more content fits on the screen. In other words, everything scales down and it looks great. I'd like this resolution to be forced at all times. This option is only available when the MacBook Air is output to a larger HDMI screen.

Here is what the settings panel looks like with the desired resolution:


texts: Yosemite Finder Window: See Item count/selection and available size

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I’ve just upgraded to Yosemite (10.10.2) and would love to know if anyone can help me figure out how to make my finder window display a line at the bottom letting me know how many files i have in each given folder as well as remaining space left in my mac (like i used to have with version 10.9.5).

I know about the command+shift+i, but was wondering if there was this more fixed way of having that info always hanging out on my finder window!

Thanks in advance for your help,


texts: Is there a way to automatically format/delete my SSD after x failed login attempts?

texts: On iOS there is the option to have the device delete all data after 10 failed login attempts. How can I have the same option on macOS so that my SSD gets deleted/reformated after x failed attemps to log into my user account?


texts:
I have a fully speced out MacBook Pro 15" from 2015, which I love using. Since I have got too many sound equipments with firewire I still don't have the nerves to move to never Macs.
However I love the one cable world of Thunderbolt 3, and the new cheaper than ever dongles. Can I connect them to thunderbolt 2 port somehow? If I can, how should I proceed? Of course I am talking about dongles which has power supplies.
Cheers,
~bio


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I have trouble writing on my Mac.

It happens on pages on Safari like writing an e-mail or in Facebook and even in this question box. The problem is that the page starts jumping up and down as I'm writing and if I use the backspace key the page I'm on jumps back to the last page I was on, removing all my text.

How can I fix this?


texts: Mission control - application windows cascade view

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I'm struggling to find a solution for displaying Application Windows into a stacked/grouped/cascade view. I'd like to point out that i'm not referring to the general Mission Control which displays all aplication windows. I'm referring when displaying windows of the same app.

For example now (by default) is shows like this http://screencast.com/t/X4IlAs5Dj .
The problem is i can barely see the tabs inside Chrome and i have to either remember perfectly in which window i had a certain tab or just click on them until i find the right window.

What i'd like would be to display the windows like this: http://screencast.com/t/RBqdpevli
Having them like this would be straight to the point. No wasted time nor clicks.

I know about the option called "Group windows by application", but this only applies to the general Mission control on all opened apps, not a certain one.

Thanks!

PS: I'm on MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)


texts: Time Machine keeps asking to create new backup?

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Every time a backup completes I get this message -

'Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.'

I am backing up to Lacie Network Space 2 drive via wifi.

Does anybody know how to correct this?


texts:
as you know we mostly forgot pdf applications other than Preview, yet it may not came handy for every task.
I have scanned some documents recently and need to tilt them only a few degrees right or left.

Is it possible to do that using Preview?

P.S. I am also open to other software or web app suggestions.


texts: Photos not uploading to photo stream or syncing with iCloud

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So I have a heavy question that I haven't seen asked on ad, so, or su.

Question -- My photos are not uploading from my iPhone nor iPhoto to my photo stream. Why?

Background -- When I attempt to sync photos to iCloud, the uploads obviously fail yet no error message is giving. On my iPhone, I can see the pictures sitting in the Photo Steam (queued) but then they disappear from the stream, one by one. In iPhoto, the status bar just reads "Uploading x Photos". I can create Photo Streams, but the only thing that syncs is the album, which is left blank.

All checkboxes are checked, all permissions are set, and all devices have been updated and restarted. I am using my laptop as a hotspot (Internet Sharing On). My laptop is using the ethernet card, my iPhone connects to my laptop's shared connection.

I checked my system.log while trying to upload from both my iPhone and iPhoto. Here's a dump from the iPhone's attempt

2/13/14 11:05:52.720 AM configd[55]: inet_set_autoaddr(en1, 1) failed, Resource busy (16)

And from iPhoto's attempt

2/13/14 11:08:01.383 AM configd[55]: inet_set_autoaddr(en1, 1) failed, Resource busy (16)

2/13/14 11:08:38.823 AM sandboxd[182]: ([52857]) mdworker(52857) deny file-read-data /Users/rjdowd/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Contents/PkgInfo (pre-plugin fstype:hfs fsflag:480D000 flags:250000005E diag:0 isXCode:0 uti:public.folder plugin:internalPlainTextImporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 855961)

2/13/14 11:08:49.000 AM kernel[0]: Sandbox: mdworker(52857) deny file-read-data /Users/rjdowd/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Contents/PkgInfo

I'm not familiar with any of those applications, but I did check the permissions on my iPhoto Library PkgInfo -- I have full r&w.

Does anyone know what sandbox is doing? And since inet_set_autoaddr(en1,1) looks like it's telling me my shared network is too busy to handle photos (which is bonk because I send & receive photos through iMessages all day) I suspect if I tried to connect to the internet a different way, I may see something else. But a wired to shared connection is all I have available for now (stuck in Afg).


texts: Can I recieve messages from someone not in my contacts?

texts: Am I able to recieve or send text messages from a android user if I don't save their number and my airdrop is turned on to "contacts only"?


texts: Messages open automatically at random times on Macbook Air

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My early 2014 MacBook air randomly opens Messages by itself. I don't remember setting something up or changing a setting that causes my MacBook to do this. I am logged into Messages, which is synced to my iPad messages, but it doesn't just open when I get a notification, it's completely random.
I don't want to delete Messages or log out of it because I still use it sometimes. I just want Messages to stop opening automatically. Does anyone have a solution?


texts: Lion installation gets stuck after reboot at Apple logo

texts: I have a 2006 Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard as the OS X and I recently purchased OS X 10.7 from the App Store.  After download, I began the installation of Lion, it restarted and just remained at the grayish window with the black apple and the black pinwheel.  I left it alone, but after hours, just remained there, no progress


texts: MacBook Pro showing weird screen on reboot and trackpad not workong

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My MacBook Pro 2017 version is showing this screen for some reason. And my trackpad is not working.I have no idea what to do.
Any help would me much appreciated


texts:
I have a MacBook Air with Yosemite, and no matter what I use- iTunes, Safari, chrome, etc, the audio comes out choppy like a cd when it skips, but this only happens when I'm listening through headphones, and I've tried multiple pairs. Is there anything I can do to fix this myself?

Thanks


texts: Unable to boot OS X on external HDD on 1 mac but fine on another. No entry sign

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I've managed to reformat and install OS X Sierra on an external hard disk with an USB3.0 connection to a borrowed 2015 Macbook Air. The install was successful and the OS was able to boot and work fine.

However, my current Macbook Pro (mid-2012) is unable to boot the OS from the external hard disk. Holding down the option key shows the hard disk indicating that the Mac has recognised the disk drive connection, but when selecting the disk image to boot, the Apple logo flashes briefly before displaying a 'No Entry' sign.

Can anyone help with this? Thanks


texts: iPhone 4S capability to read android hidden files

texts: I sent an email with hidden files from an android to my iPhone 4S. When I opened the mail attachment it's was several lines of boxes and com.apple.textencoding.   What are these files and how can I open them?


texts: Is it possible to install a custom ringtone using iTunes 12.7 or later?

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Is it possible to install a custom ringtone on an iPhone running iOS  11 using iTunes 12.7 or later?
If so, how?


texts: Some web sites render differently when returning from link

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I'm using an iPhone 6s with iOS 9.3.4 and Safari.  I am encountering a problem when I view certain websites: if I tap a link to be taken to another page and then swipe right to return to the page I was first viewing, the site doesn't display the same way it originally did.  The font and everything else is much larger (as if I hit ⌘+ on desktop Safari to enlarge everything).  Please visit the link just below to imgur.com to see a before and after view of the problem:

Before and after

(Meta: I originally embedded both images directly into this post, but StackExchange wouldn't let me embed more than 2 links so I felt it better to save my second link and use it below to link to a particular site where this problem can be replicated for the benefit of those who want to try this with their mobile device.)

I can't say for sure this started happening when I recently upgraded from 9.3.3 to 9.3.4, but I started noticing it right around that time, and I can't remember it ever having happened before that.

Here's a few things about it:

Refreshing the page fixes the problem and reverts it to its previous formatting, but that's becoming annoying, and more importantly, it unnecessarily pushes me closer to my cellular data usage cap.
It doesn't happen on all sites.  But when I do encounter a site it happens on, I am able to replicate the problem every time I try.
Turning off my content blocker does not help.

Strangely, triggering the enlarging behavior depends on what link/site I tap to visit.  Using the site pictured in the images linked above for example: there is a hyperlink not far from the top of the page in the paragraph under the heading "The Dark Age" denoted by the text "dumb idea."  Tapping that link does not trigger the behavior when I return from it.  However, in the paragraph just below it there's another link denoted by the text "other projects entirely outside of programming."  Tapping this link and returning from it does trigger the enlarging.

Is anyone else able to replicate this on their iPhone in Safari?  Does anyone know if there's anything I can do on my end to stop this from happening?


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I have a bunch of data files on a Mac Mini that I want to read over my wireless LAN in a script (F#, not that it matters I think). I can see the files in Finder, but don't know how to read them in a program.

What path to the file would I use in my script? For example if I had a file called myData.csv in a folder called MyUserId/data, what would the path be?


texts: Mac displaying different time than what it says in preferences

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My mac running Mojave 10.14.6 is displaying the time 8 hours forward. The time zone is correct, and when I go into date and time preferences set automatically is checked and the time shows correctly. I haven't tried a restart yet, so I am asking this in advance. If a restart doesn't fix it, what is the problem? I'm sorry if this question isn't written well.
Thanks!


texts: After upgrade to Lion, Mailplane experiences repeated failures to connect

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I'm a happy longtime Mailplane (Mac gmail client) user, but it seems to have become buggy since installing Lion.

There's nothing official on the website about problems, so maybe its just me and/or my configuration.

Anybody else have problems? Any ideas?


texts: Can my external monitor charge 16" MacBook Pro over USB-C while using it?

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I am planning to use my new 16" MacBook Pro with an external display which is equipped with a USB-C output. I use the setup generally in extended display mode, and sometimes in clamshell mode.

I am planning to use a single, USB-C 3.1 cable to both drive the display and keep the MacBook connected to power. I'll be actively using the machine while it's connected.

My questions is, since the new 16" MacBook is equipped with a larger battery (100-Wh), and comes with a denser power brick (96 Watt), will the output from the monitor be adequate to charge the MacBook? If it depends on the monitor type, how do I determine if the output would be adequate?


texts: Will iPhone 4 turn on automatically when charging?

texts:
If my iPhone 4 dies, will it turn back on automatically after I put it on charge?

The reason I ask this is my lock button is broken and I'm afraid to let my phone die. What should I do?


texts:
I am looking for a way to view PostScript files in iOS. It appears that there's no built-in mechanism in iOS for the same. Also, I'm unable to find any viewer app on the App Store.

While Safari for macOS supports viewing it, iOS version doesn't appear to do so. Is there any app that renders postscript as opposed to showing the text file?


texts: Script that checks for apps with open window asks 'Where is Electron" in Electron apps

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I have a script that prints the bundle ids for all apps with open windows. When an Electron app is open (for example VSCode) the script asks "Where is Electron" and it shows all apps in the Applications folder except Electron apps. How to fix this behavior?

The Code:

set bundles to {}
tell application "System Events"
   set names to get the name of every process whose visible is true
end tell
repeat with name in names
   set bundles to bundles & id of application name
end repeat


texts: Can stolen iPhone still be tracked using Find My iPhone after restoring?

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My iPhone has just been stolen. The chances of the thief resetting is high but will still be locked to my iCloud.

If they reset it and connects to a Wi-Fi in hope it's not locked to iCloud will Find My iPhone tracking still work?


texts: Switching inputs from MacBook Pro Speakers to External Headphones

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When I have my headphone plugged into my Mac and open an application like YouTube, I can hear sound from the headphones. When I unplug the headphones, I then hear sound from the MacBook Pro speakers.

But when I plug the headphones in again, I still hear sound from the Mac speakers! Not from the headphones!

In Sound Setting I can see that the output Device is set as External Headphones, but the sound is coming from the Mac speakers!

I am so confused! Any idea how to get sound back to the headphones?


texts: Can my Thunderbolt Macbook Air drive my Mini DisplayPort iMac as an external display?

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I've run an iMac as an external display for a Mac laptop before, but am wondering if my new setup can work like that. I have:

2011 Macbook Air with Thunderbolt
2009 iMac with Mini DisplayPort
mini DisplayPort cable

Can I drive my iMac from my laptop? I've had no success so far, despite manually putting my iMac in Target Display Mode using cmd-F2. I can get the setup to the point where both screens turn blue (as expected) but then my iMac reverts to showing the iMac's desktop, not that of the laptop.


texts: Install wine via Homebrew: Problem with zlib

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I've got a problem with my installation of wine. (OS 10.8.2, XCode 4.5.2)

With the information I found, I already fixed a few errors, but now I'm stuck on a missing component called 'zlib' and I can't install it via brew. Another error while installing wine appears while make install for libicns
Anyone got an idea?

Here is my installation-output:

brew install libpng --universal
==> Downloading http://downloads.sf.net/project/libpng/libpng15/1.5.13/libpng-1.
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/libpng-1.5.13.tar.gz
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/libpng/1.5.13
checking for memset... yes
checking for pow... yes
checking for zlibVersion in -lz... no
checking for z_zlibVersion in -lz... no
configure: error: zlib not installed

or

brew install libicns
==> Downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/icns/libicns-0.8.1.tar.
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/libicns-0.8.1.tar.gz
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/libicns/0.8.1
==> make install
      _WritePNGImage in icns2png.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture i386
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[1]: *** [icns2png] Error 1
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1


texts: Using applescript with Calendar in El Capitan

texts:
I've been trying for weeks to script an ipad restore process for Apple Configurator 2.  My script works fine when ran within Script Editor, and it also works as a stand alone application.  The problem occurs when my script is launched from a Calendar event (which is the whole idea so I don't have to run it manually).  Here is the first part of my script:

tell application "Apple Configurator 2"
activate
delay 30
tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Apple Configurator 2"
        keystroke "a" using {command down}
        delay 5
        click menu item "1 - Erase" of menu 1 of menu item "Apply" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Actions" of menu bar 1
        delay 5
        click button "Apply" of sheet 1 of window "All Devices"
    end tell
end tell

The script triggers just fine, and all is working until it attempts to click the "Apply" button.  My script application returns this error:
Can't get window "All Devices" of <> "Apple Configurator 2" of application
"System Events".

System Events got an error: Can't get window "All
Devices" of process "Apple Configurator 2". (-1728)

As an Applescript newbie, I'm out of ideas. Anybody else?
Thanks!


texts: Adding Tabs to text boxes within a webpage?

texts:
Is there a way to type a tab space to text within a webpage?
(without copy pasting a tab)

The normal behaviour of the tab key in an internet browser is cycling between input fields, buttons links etc but now with online document edotors (like Google Docs), how can a user add a tab to a document?


texts: How do I install MySQLdb on my MacBook or is there a way I can skip install and use sqlalchemy without it?

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I have macOS Sierra and XAMPP installed (with mariadb as database).

However, on my local MacBook I am running this Python code to create table:

from sqlalchemy import create_engine

def create_db():
    from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
    engine = create_engine("mysql://username:password@localhost/exchange_rate", echo = True)
    # Session = sessionmaker(bind = engine)
    # session = Session()
    # import pdb
    # pdb.set_trace()
    meta = MetaData()
    exchange_rate = Table(
        'inr_exchange_rate', meta,
        Column('id', Integer, primary_key = True),
        Column('as_of', Date),
        Column('rate_per_usd', Float),
        Column('last_modified', DateTime),
        )
    meta.create_all(engine)
    return True

if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = get_parser()
    args = parser.parse_args()
    print(args)
    if args.create_db:
        print("Create db called;")
        create_db()
        exit(0)

but I get this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "exchange_rate.py", line 73, in <module>
    create_db()
  File "exchange_rate.py", line 50, in create_db
    engine = create_engine("mysql://username:password@localhost/exchange_rate", echo = True)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/__init__.py", line 386, in create_engine
    return strategy.create(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/strategies.py", line 75, in create
    dbapi = dialect_cls.dbapi(**dbapi_args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py", line 92, in dbapi
    return __import__('MySQLdb')
ImportError: No module named MySQLdb

then I tried to follow instruction on the link given by @bmike:

$ sudo pip3 install MySQL-python
Collecting MySQL-python
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a5/e9/51b544da85a36a68debe7a7091f068d802fc515a3a202652828c73453cad/MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip (108kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 112kB 490kB/s
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.7 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/tmp/pip-install-oxqg62fi/MySQL-python/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/private/tmp/pip-install-oxqg62fi/MySQL-python/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base pip-egg-info
         cwd: /private/tmp/pip-install-oxqg62fi/MySQL-python/
    Complete output (7 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/private/tmp/pip-install-oxqg62fi/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 13, in <module>
        from setup_posix import get_config
      File "/private/tmp/pip-install-oxqg62fi/MySQL-python/setup_posix.py", line 2, in <module>
        from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ConfigParser'
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

but If I try to install config parser, I get its already installed message.

$ pip3 install ConfigParser
Requirement already satisfied: ConfigParser in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (4.0.2)


texts: Prohibition Sign and Can't Reinstall OS X

texts:
I have no idea what happened, but my macbook pro's battery died, and when I went to turn it on, it took me to a grey screen with the prohibition symbol. When I researched the problem, most solutions were to reinstall OS X. I booted up recovery mode and went to do do so, but when prompted to select a disk to install it on, the menu was empty.

Went to Disk Utility, and the HDD is showing up there. Tried to repair, got several weird errors, so I used Internet Recovery mode instead. Trying to reinstall OS X on there also did not work as the menu is also empty.

This time, trying to repair the disk gave some progress, but I kept getting stuck on a "partition map failed while adjusting size for logical volume" error message. I went into Single User Mode and ran fsck -fy, which did return a successful "The volume appears to be OK" message, but when I try to repair the disk again, it still gives the same message.

I have no idea what to do and have exams in 4 days, so if anyone knows what to do or knows how I could access my files (class notes), I'd really appreciate it.

The computer is a mid 2012 Macbook Pro non-retina model, and I bought it in October 2013. It was running the latest OS.

Thank you in advance.


texts: Connect Macbook Air to Macbook Pro in target disk mode

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Is there anyway to connect a Macbook Air (11-Inch, Late 2010) to a Macbook Pro in target disk mode?

The Macbook Air does not support Thunderbolt and also does not have a FireWire port.  It just has two USB ports and a mini display port.


texts: Unable to modify the volume with the keyboard

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Sometimes, when I connect an external set of headphones/speakers, I am unable to change the volume. When I press one the volume keys, I see the image below.

Why does this happen? Interestingly, if I am playing music using software that has a volume control (e.g. Spotify or Youtube) I can still change the volume with the mouse using the application's volume bar. However, the system's volume bar is greyed out and can't change it either.


texts: Is it possible to create/add shortcut on lockscreen instead of homescreen in iOS Devices?

texts:
As I follow up this reference link:

How do I create a link on the iPad home screen to a specific pdf?

for a requirement, However my requirement is slightly different. I want to put the shortcut on lockscreen, So whenever user click on thier iPad home button, instead of opening the home screen after unlock the screen, user directly click on that shortcut and execute their process.

I tried to search this feature but didn't get any references, other than above mentioned.

Please sugesst.....


texts:
I know the iPhone does that, using me.com, but I don't know anything similar for iPods. I have an iPod touch and, sometimes, I forget where I leave it, only knowing it's on my house.

If it was my cell, I would dial the number and listen. Is there a similar app for iPods?


texts: iOS 7.1 - Where do emails go to when I 'archive' them in Gmail App?

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I have iOS 7.1 installed on my iPhone and I am using the built in Gmail app.   If I am in the inbox and I mark a few messages, I swear I used to have an option to move the marked items to the trash.   Now I get (across the bottom of the screen)

My question is, where do emails actually go when I select Archive?   I would assume they would go into some folder somewhere, but what i really want is to move them to the trash.   I could always click Move, and then select the folder - but I seem to rarely remember to do this.   There were a few messages I 'archived' that I can no longer seem to find.   As a test, I selected a few messages and archived them, and afterwards they do not seem to show up in the trash or in any of the main email folders on my account.


texts: Cannot print period ('.') from simple AppleScript to VMware Fusion virtual machine

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So I have a simple AppleScript that I think should type a bunch of keys, but the period character doesn't print in VMware Fusion's virtual machines. This is odd because my period key (.) enters a period like normal in those VMs.

MCVE

Here is my latest version that I tried:

on run {input, parameters}

    set file_text to "this another test: ... hello ..."
    delay 0.3
    repeat with ch in file_text
        tell application "System Events" to keystroke ch
        delay 0.1
    end repeat

    return input
end run

I built this as a service in Automator. I run this by going to my application, then in the Title bar I select Services -> quicktype.

Expected Behavior

It should just type the text this another test: ... hello .... In many application, it does exactly that.

True Behavior

In a FreeBSD VM, pressing . renders a period at the shell (like normal). When the above script runs, however, the periods look like backspaces. End result:

In a Windows VM, . renders a period in Notepad (like normal). When the above script runs, however, the periods seem to be ignored completely. End result:

Questions

Is there a way to truly emulate pressing the keys from a string of characters in AppleScript? Because clearly the above way isn't doing that.

Does anyone know why the behavior I described above is happening? Why does this work in TextMate and Terminal, and other mac apps, but not in Fusion VMs?


texts:
I've recently bought an used mac mini (early 2009 version) patched with preinstalled HighSierra on it. My main goal is to get it working. Currently I'm trying to install El Capitan which is somehow not possible (details below).

It came with firmware password so I cleared it with NVRAM hack. Unfortunately it enabled SIP, so USB is not working after OS boot. It's getting voltage but not operating.
Then I started to deal with boot options (order as on apple support page):

Safe mode - SIP still enabled -> USB not working
Startup manager - I've created (with transmac, i will try on another mac with createinstallmedia) bootable OS X El Capitan USB (with ignore ownership unchecked) -> prohibited.

I've also switched HDD, it turned out it has WinXP installed -> USB not operating

AHT / Diagnostics not working -> OS booting, no power on USB. Internet AHT -> prohibited.
NetBoot - don't have one -> skipped
Recovery. None of the options working, all result in prohibited sign.
NVRAM / PRAM reset. Yup, I've tried, didn't change anything.
Single-user mode - Freezes on right after [PCI configuration begin]
Target disk mode - not needed now, skipped
Verbose mode - USB not operating, gets to login screen though.

Is anything left I haven't try? Or I would choose having expensive paperweight or letting apple service manage to run this.


texts: Homebrew doctor warnings requesting library deletions

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I got the following list of brew doctor warnings and was wondering if it's safe to  delete the libraries and .pc files listed. (I have no idea what they are used for!)

Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib. If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected dylibs:
/usr/local/lib/libtcl8.6.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libtk8.6.dylib

Warning: Unbrewed .pc files were found in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected .pc files:
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/tcl.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/tk.pc

Warning: Unbrewed static libraries were found in /usr/local/lib. If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected static libraries:
/usr/local/lib/libtclstub8.6.a
/usr/local/lib/libtkstub8.6.a


texts: How to copy all files with extension/filetype in terminal?

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I want to copy all files in ~/Desktop with the extension .jpeg to my flash drive.

How can I do this in the terminal?


texts: What would happen if I force installed a Linux driver into Mac OS X?

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So, recently I got a Mac system and I was planning to put in an Intel WiFi card (as an upgrade for its current card). Now, as we know, Apple and Intel do not get along WiFi-wise.

However, this same card works in Linux.

What would happen if I were to force the Intel drivers for the Linux kernel into Mac OS X? Would it work? Would there be severe instability or data loss? Is it even possible?


texts: How to disable mouse acceleration without logging out?

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I know I can type in the terminal:

defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1

to turn off mouse acceleration BUT this requires me to log out and log back in to take effect. The problem is that I'm using a Mac in a network that resets all user preferences every time I log out. So when I log back in, everything is back to default settings. I've tried typing in the terminal:

curl -O http://ktwit.net/code/killmouseaccel
chmod +x killmouseaccel
./killmouseaccel mouse

which turns off mouse acceleration but the problem is that it also resets the tracking speed to very low. If I try to increase the tracking speed in System Preferences, it turns acceleration back on.

Is there a way to disable mouse acceleration without logging out? If not, is there a way to set tracking speed to the max level after using "./killmouseaccel mouse" without turning acceleration back on?


texts:
Since I was not able to find it out does anyone of you know if the following INTERNAL SSD will be compatible with my MacMini Late 2012 (the cheaper one)?

Internal SSD from BestBuy

Thanks :)


texts:
In my PHP.ini, the extensions are not uncommented.

;extension=php_curl.so

But in phpinfo(), I can see that curl (by example) is enable and in my code I can use it.

But I can't understand why curl is enable, someone can help me?

My conf :

PHP 5.5.34
OS X El Capitan 10.11.5


texts: Why are some apps installed via iTunes Store while others via App Store? is there any significance in that? Many thanks.


texts: Will connecting an Exchange account to my Mac enable remote wipe?

texts: I know that connecting an Exchange account to an iPhone can give the Exchange administrators the ability to force a Passcode change or remotely wipe the device, but is this possible on a Macbook/OS X/macOS client?


texts: Can't grant Input Monitoring permission to Wacom drivers on macOS Catalina

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To preface, I am a procrastinator at updating my laptop. I just updated to macOS Catalina and I want to throw something at it.

My laptop: MacBook, Retina 12 inch, Early 2015; 1.1GHz Dual-Core Intel Core M; 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Running Catalina version 10.15.4

So my laptop is a 2015 MacBook. Previously running Mojave with Photoshop CS6 and a 2018 Wacom Intuos. Drivers up to date. No issues whatsoever, ran like a dream.

I just updated to Catalina which was apparently a huge mistake. First, CS6 no longer functions. Frustrating, but I upgraded to Creative Cloud and it’s fine. My tablet started lagging to the point where it was virtually useless. The drivers were newest version but I figured something hadn’t synced right. So I completely wiped Wacom and set it up brand new, new drivers, etc.

Well if I thought updating was dumb, that was even dumber. Catalina’s security upgrades require apps to ask permission in order to read keystrokes, which is required for Wacom’s drivers, I learned today.

But it never asked for permission. So I went to manually add it via Input Monitoring and it doesn’t show up. Nothing shows up. It won’t let me manually add it. Research states that in order for you to add anything to Input Monitoring, you have to have an app that’s already requested permission in the list. I’ve tried installing, uninstalling, and reinstalling various apps that are supposed to ask permission but nothing is requesting keystroke access. Which is where I’m stuck.

Is there a way to force an app to request it again? I've set and reset permissions a dozen times, wiped and installed old driver versions, wiped and reinstalled new drivers, nothing is working. It keeps telling me I need to add Wacom to Input Monitoring but it won't request permission.


texts: Why are Chinese characters showing up as one of the text field menu buttons in iOS Youtube comments?

texts: In the iOS YouTube app of my phone and iPad both on iOS 9.3, I see this as a menu choice when typing in the comments field. I don't have Chinese languages enabled on my phone or iPad that I know of. What is this button for, and why am I seeing it in YouTube only?


texts:
I've just installed ExpressVPN, which connects via an app. While it's connected, there is no extra VPN connection listed in System Preferences->Network, and the menu bar VPN status does not indicate that it is connected. It is working fine, so my question is purely out of interest:

How does this VPN work, under the hood? How does this app cause all network traffic to go through the VPN connection, when it doesn't set up a system VPN?


texts:
I'm trying to get the soundfont from New Super Mario Bros. to work in garageband, because somebody ripped the midi files from the game. Except when I go to the Audio/MIDI tab, there aren't any instrument settings...
How can i fix this?


texts: A turning gear appears when I run this workflow, why?

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I am running the following script (called Restart AppleTV) using automator :
on run {input, parameters}

  do shell script "sudo killall coreaudiod" with administrator privileges

  return input
end run

However, I get the following in the statusbar :

The terminal code DOES run, but the gear never disappears unless I manually click the x button .. How can I get rid of this automatically or prevent it from appearing in the first place ?
--Note : This only happens when I run it by double clicking the exported .app file, but not when I run the code through automator.


texts: How to have Finder open 'Pictures' folder when iPhone connects and photos import via AutoImporter.app?

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I have a nifty setup on my MacBook Pro, where, upon connecting my iPhone, I have AutoImporter.app (/System/Library/Image Capture/Support/Application/AutoImporter.app) automatically import whatever photos are on my camera roll, delete them off the iPhone, and simultaneously open a Finder window with the folder that I have set as import folder ('Pictures', for me), so I can look at the imported photos immediately and work on them in Photoshop or similarly work with them in the file system directly.

It's lightning quick, and extremely convenient.

Now, on my MacBook Air, I am trying to emulate this setup and I have forgotten how I achieved the final step in this process, where a Finder window automatically opens (on top of whatever you're doing), once AutoImporter opens and starts importing the photos.

(The first step of the process, can be described here.)

I have narrowed it down to observing it being triggered simply by opening AutoImporter.app - whether it imports photos or not. Without the iPhone connected, simply by opening AutoImporter.app - every time - a new Finder window with Pictures folder, pops up.

I have endlessly messed around in Automator and turned off all third party automator-type apps (Keyboard Maestro, FastScripts, Alfred), and I still cannot determine how it is working.

It seems I somehow did this using in-built OS X tools and software - whether a script (in .scpt or .app form), an automator workflow, or something using both, or something else. How on earth did I achieve this?


texts: Is there a way to resize Safari windows while in full screen mode on Safari 6 or higher?

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When full screen mode was first introduced the window in Safari was resizable but it seems that it has been disabled or at least disabled by default. Is there a way to bring back this functionality?

http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/04/resize-safari-windows-while-in-full-screen-mode/


texts: I want to play audio from both the headphones that I have plugged into my mac, and also just from the mac speakers. I've tried the audio output setup and it just shows them both as "built in output" is there any way to make them serperate outputs?


texts: Applescript - Close all windows except frontmost window

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I have created an automator quick action that runs the following apple script

tell application "System Events"
    set frontApp to name of first application process whose frontmost is true --retrieves name of open application
end tell

tell application frontApp
    repeat while window 2 exists
        close window 2
    end repeat
end tell

It works; however, it takes a while to run if I have a lot of windows open.

Is there a way to close all windows simultaneously except for the frontmost one?

I typed in tell application "Finder" to close every window from 2 to 5
After I compiled it, it automatically changed to tell application "Finder" to close ( windows 2 thru 5 ). However, I get the error message error "Finder got an error: Can’t get windows 2 thru 3." number -1728 from windows 2 thru 3. So, then, it accepts the structure of the command, but I'm still missing something.

Edit: I tried the following script

tell application "Finder"
    close (every window where index is greater than 1)
end tell

However, I get the error "Finder got an error: Handler can’t handle objects of this class." number -10010

Why does this not work?


texts: Would a 2.6 Ghz CPU drain a laptop's battery faster than a 2.3 Ghz CPU?

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Apple offers the MacBook Pro with two processor options -- 2.3 Ghz and 2.6 Ghz.

I'm wondering if the more powerful CPU drain the battery more quickly by any significant degree.

(And incidentally, would additional RAM consume additional power?)


texts: Why isn't the "Open New Page" button working in Safari for iPad (iOS 4.3.5)?

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In my recently acquired iPad2, the Safari "Open Page" button is not working. All the rest of the buttons work fine, except this one... The oddest thing is that when I "long-tap" a link and choose "Open in a new page", the animation shows all the other pages (though I can't tap/select/close any of them) before opening the new page...

Deleting the Safari cache/history works to get a new "blank" page but not to get the button working. I've tried closing Safari, powering off and even "rebooting" (home-sleep for 15 seconds) the iPad with the same result.

This was working fine before; I updated to 4.3.5 yesterday so I'm blaming it on that.

Any ideas? It's really a PITA not to basically be able to use Safari.


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I own a Macbook Pro 13 2017 (2 thunderbolt ports), and I would like to disable the internal display when an external monitor is connected to it through USB-C.

I have ruled out the following

Turn brightness all the way down in mirrored display mode: Not the best, because the GPU's framebuffer is still doing extra work on that internal display (processing power and battery affected).
Using Clamshell mode: Again, not the best. I only got two USB-C ports, one would be taken by AC power which is a prerequisite for this mode, and another displaying to the external monitor.
Add "niog=1" on NVRAM: Sounds OK, but still a hassle to reset NVRAM every time I want to work on the internal display.

I can think of two solutions

Simulate what is happening to macOS on Clamshell mode without actually closing the lid.
Simulate the Macbook on AC adapter power so I can use Clamshell mode with one USB-C port free.

I would appreciate feedback on this, it would be great to nail this issue.


texts: Why would native Mac filesystem performance be MUCH worse than various virtualized disks on the same mac?

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I was attempting to profile a php application when I noticed it was running MUCH slower on my mac vs docker vs virtualbox (all on the same hardware). I started narrowing down possible issues, but now I'm not sure where to go. It seems to be related to the filesystem or core utilities itself, but I'm not sure.

So I started simplifying the problem and the running some tests. I dumped a large number of files from the app (~7.5K files, 74MB total size) as a sample set to perform operations on into a single dir, and then copied the dir to the container, and the vm.

Test 1: time -p find . -type f -exec md5sum {}  \; > /dev/null

Native | Docker | VirtualBox
  27s  |   6s   |    5s

Test 2: time -p find . -type f -exec cp {} /dev/null  \; > /dev/null

Native | Docker | VirtualBox
  16s  |   9s   |    7s

Test 3: time -p { dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/delme bs=4k count=100000 && sync; }

Native | Docker | VirtualBox
  0.7s |   0.8s |    0.4s

With the first 2 tests, I was trying to test reading and operating on many files using native utils. OSX was significantly worse. I was trying to test raw disk speed with the 3rd test.

I know this methodology may be flawed or there may be more accurate way to test, but this is just what I came up with and seemed representative enough for troubleshooting. (More details - I ran each test on each env sequentially, repeated the process 3 times, and took the average. Mac is Catlina 10.15.3 encrypted APFS (no errors reported on the drive). Docker container is debian:latest. VB VM is Ubuntu 16.04.

So what's possibly going on here? Am I overlooking something obvious? Is it likely the differences in filesystem performance? I also ran these test on a linux cloud container running on AWS, and had numbers aligned with the Docker/VB VM. Does it have something to do with how virtualized files are typically stored/read? Does the encryption on the native disk matter (since they are all ultimately on this disk)? Could it be some corporate endpoint security process intercepting native read/writes? (I'm unaware of any, but it's a company laptop, and I don't know everything installed, but when I run sudo htop, I'm not seeing anything unusual to me.)

Any ideas for further troubleshooting? Using a virtualized layer on top of the native hardware to get a 2-4x improvement just seems wrong.

Edit 1: Results with disk cache clearing

So after reading this link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28845524/echo-3-proc-sys-vm-drop-caches-on-mac-osx

I re-ran the tests with a flushed disk cache and noted the change (∆) between the first and 2nd run.

For Native:
sync && sudo purge; run test; run test immediately again;

For Docker and VB:
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; run test; run test immediately again;

Native | Docker | VirtualBox
  ∆5s  |   ∆3s  |    ∆3s

There was a clear difference between first and second run, but they all improved with disk caching, and the timings from my original tests indicate a primed a cache for all the original runs that I noted, and the performance difference still remains.

Edit 2: Sharing a script for others to test/verify

I wrote a short script to create some sample data files, simulate a workload similar to what I described, and print the results. Then I ran it on an older 2015 Macbook that I recently reset and installed Catalina on (so no unknown corporate apps, no encrypted APFS, etc.) I tested it natively and using Docker for Mac on that machine. Once again for the limited testing, the linux VM (running docker) on the Mac significantly outperformed OSX. I then tried with my original php app. Same result.

If you try the script and notice significantly different results, please let me know. If anyone has suggestions to improve the script/tests, please do, but otherwise there are certain scenarios/workloads that I just won't be using OSX for from now on and will be using a vm/docker on the Mac instead.


texts:
When I use the  Cmd ⌘   Ctrl ⌃
 Space  , It does not open the Emoji viewer, but opens a 'Search My Mac' in the Finder.


texts: Time Machine: Backing up the local drive onto an external AND a partition of that external to another external

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My setup: I have an iMac that gets backed up via Time Machine to an external SSD that is partitioned to have storage for Time Machine and for working off a photo catalog in Lightroom directly from that drive (I've set it up this way so I can work off of that Lightroom catalog from my Macbook when traveling as well).
What I'm trying to do: is backup that "Photo" partition of the external drive onto another external drive only (I do not want to also backup the local drive there, just the partition of the external drive).
I'm not seeing a way to do this in Time Machine — any suggestions?


texts: WiFi slow on MacBook Pro but not on other devices

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I am using a 15" and a 13" MacBook Pro with these profiles:

They're both connected to the same wifi network and they're at the same distance from the router.

Problem is that the 15" has a slower network. Sometimes youtube videos buffer. And generally feels less snappy. And as can be seen from the image above - and the speed tests on the right -, the network has these "moments" where it drops all of a sudden on the 15" (you can see the drops in the top orange graph), whereas it remains very stable on the 13".

The only major difference I was able to find between the two is that one uses DFS and the other doesn't (as pointed by the arrow).

Would anybody know why I'm getting lower speeds on the 15" and is there a way that I can also make it connect using DFS?

Note that my iPhone also seems to work with stable speed tests and no "drops".

EDIT What I've noticed is really a problem with these so called "drops". The network sort of stalls in the speed test run on the 15". Here's a few randomized speed tests on the 15":

What I want to highlight here is not the speed but the "flat lines". When I see the speed-test run in real time I can really notice the number stalling - as it's waiting for something, and then all of a sudden dropping.

On other devices I really don't notice these kind of stalls; sure there are sometimes slower speeds but the graph is drawn fluidly and I don't notice so called "flat lines".

Here's a few test runs from another well-functioning device (an iPhone) showing how "the stalling" never seems to occur (there are no flat lines followed by sudden drops):

As a last resort I also uninstalled a VPN but that didn't make a difference (the graph above was drawn after uninstalling the VPN software).

EDIT 2 Note that also if I plug the 15" to the router directly using ethernet, the "stalling" doesn't happen anymore and I get fluid speed tests.

EDIT 3 The slow 15" is a work laptop. I just realized there might be something installed that could cause this network stalling. I have uninstalled all software relating VPN or antivirus so I'm not sure what it could be. Thing is when I plug in ethernet I don't see these stalls so my feeling has more to do with something relating the wifi configuration.


texts: How can I remedy a multiple AirPort network where each base station tends to end up isolated from the rest?

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I live in a wide house, so I have an Airport extreme, an Airport express and a TimeCapsule setting up a free roaming network.
I used to have the Airport Express working as a master central router for the rest of the network.
Airplay was a little buggy and wifi gaming is not the best option out in the market.

But now I changed my ISP, and it provided me (free of charge) with a ZTE ZXDSL 9311WII routed modem, with 4 ethernet ports, so I decided to boost the performance of my network. Bought over 300ft of LAN cable, a bunch of cable connectors, crimping tools and even wall connectors...
So I wired every AirPort directly to the ZTE, and now I have all airports in bridge mode.

The problem that emerged is that a computer connected to one airport can not see anymore the computer in another airport. This happens if the computer is connected via wifi also, he can only see the ones connected to the same airport. Also, airport admin utility lost the capability of seeing all the airports connected and turned on - and now can only see only the one that the computer is directly connected to.

How do I solve this visibility issue?

I am SURE ZTE is not blocking connections because if I plug in computers directly to ZTE, they can see each other just as they should.
I already went trough all airport possible configurations, googled for the whole day, and found nothing about this configuration being possible or not.


texts: How can I extract contacts from an iTunes backup of an iPhone?

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I have an iTunes backup of an iPhone, and I want to extract the contacts from there as a file, e.g., vcf or csv.

There are many advertised paid software packages. Is there any free option?


texts:
I'm trying to revive my old college laptop which is a white macbook from early 2009.  I pasted the hardware a software specs below.  The last thing that I did with it was update it to Mountain Lion, which turned out to be somewhat of a mistake because it is now painfully slow (which is why I haven't touched it in a while).  I'm looking for suggestions for how to bring it back up to speed.

Here's what I have in mind:

Update the RAM.  4Gb at least and 6Gb if possible
General cleaning.  I'm considering CleanMyMac 2, but I'm not sure if the gains I    get from it will be worth the $40.
Lastly, I'm considering upgrading to an SSD.

Thanks in advance,

Hardware:

Model Name:    MacBook
 Model Identifier:  MacBook5,2
  Processor Name:   Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed:  2 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores:    2
  L2 Cache: 3 MB
  Memory:   2 GB
  Bus Speed:    1.07 GHz
  Boot ROM Version: MB52.0088.B05
  SMC Version (system): 1.38f5
  Serial Number (system):   W89064CJ4R1
  Hardware UUID:    F898BAE6-8231-55EE-9CE8-604194507E5A
  Sudden Motion Sensor:
  State:    Enabled

Software:
 System Version:    Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63b)
  Kernel Version:   Darwin 11.4.2


texts: How to get to the help input field on OS X in German?

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There is this nifty little help input field, which I use often as a new Mac user to find the right menu options. It says Command + Shift + ? is the keyboard shortcut to get there, even in the German Apple help pages.

What happens on my German keyboard with German OSX settings is that I already have to press the shift key to get to the question mark. Thus: When I do that, I get the help (Command + ?), not the help input field.

What's the keyboard shortcut to get to the help input field?


texts: How large is my 2012 MacBook Air's L1 cache? Are they larger now?

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Discussion in comments below this answer to improving speed of this numpy-based diffraction calculator suggest that the reason the script in the answer runs slow for me but fast for others (even on earlier versions of NumPy) might be that my late 2012 MacBook Air's processor L1 cache might be smaller than others. It could also be that I am running dangerously low on disk space (I was seeing 40 MB/sec reads and writes while running).

I'm curious though, what is the size of the on-processor L1 cache for my late 2012 MacBook Air, and how does it compare to new MacBooks?

MacBook Air:   13-inch, Mid 2012
Processor:     1.8 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory:        4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Hard Drive:    251 GB Flash Storage

I'm not a developer, but I did a small test. Running the script below I see that multiplication of two NumPy arrays is fastest (a few nanoseconds per float multiply) when the array size is about 10^4. Each is about 8 bytes, so I'm estimating that my L1 cache size is about 10^5 Bytes.

Is that close?

note: I estimate time using both time.time() and time.process_time(). The former (blue, solid line, lower values) is "people time", how long I have to wait for something to finish.

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import time

Ns = np.logspace(1, 8, 15).astype(int)

t1, t2 = [], []
for N in Ns:
    x = np.random.random(N)
    t1_start = time.time()
    t2_start = time.process_time()
    n = int(1E+06/N)
    for i in range(n):
        y = x*x
    t1.append((time.time() - t1_start)/(N*n))
    t2.append((time.process_time() - t2_start)/(N*n))

if True:
    plt.figure()
    plt.plot(Ns, t1)
    plt.plot(Ns, t2, '--')
    plt.xscale('log')
    plt.yscale('log')
    plt.title('estimated time (sec) per float multiply vs array size', fontsize=14)
    plt.show()


texts: App URLs in web-pages don't take me to the app in app-store on iOS

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On my iPad2 (iOS6), when a web-page has a link to their app in the app-store, following the link does not open that app in the app-store. Instead, the app-store opens but does not jump to that app... I have to try searching for it.

It seems to happen every time - is this a known issue?


texts:
I am using a Mac mini running macOS 10.13.6. My default browser is Firefox 65.0.1. I also have the Opera browser installed in the Applications folder.

Whenever I drag a URL to the Desktop the icon shows as a white icon with a red "O". When I right click on the icon and go to Get Info the URL has a .webloc extension and the Name & Extension: text box is greyed out.

I am aware that the .webloc file is the result of Safari being installed and integrated into the OS by Apple, but why am I not getting a Firefox icon (which is the default) on the Desktop instead of the Opera icon?

I have checked & confirmed that Firefox is set as the default browser in both the OS System Preferences as well as in Firefox Preferences.


texts: Numbers: hotkeys to choose cells in formula edit mode

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When I edit formulae in Numbers, is it possible to select nearby cells using the cursor keys?

For example, I might be editing cell C3, and set its formula to "=B2+C2". I would like to select cells B2 by hitting the ⬆ and then the ⬅, to take the cursor from C3 to B2. I've tried hitting the keys, and using combinations of ⇧ Shift, ⌥ Option, and ⌘ Command.

Is there a way to do this?


texts: How do you insert literal control chars in vim on Mac?

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How do you insert literal control characters in vi on Mac?

For example what is the Mac equivalent of

Unix ^V^M
Windows ^Q^M (in vim)

to insert a \r into a substitution string?


texts: Duplicating images and resizing one of the copies in Automator

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I am trying to create an Automator action for a workflow I often need for web publishing:

Select some images inside Aperture
Export two copies of the original image with different resizing settings applied (say, a 1000 px version for viewing and a 150 px thumbnail)
Rename the exported copies, prompting me for a file name

I have not yet found a possibility to actually duplicate input files and then work with one of the duplicates in finder. Using the following sequence of actions results in the error message "could not access the needed files":

Select Finder objects
Scale images (to 1000 px)
Duplicate Finder objects (the idea is that the duplicate should remain at 1000 px and the subsequent edits only affect the copy)
Scale images (to thumbnail size)

Any ideas what's wrong here? I suspect that the duplicate action doesn't return any file handles to the next one, but I could be wrong.


texts: 3/4 Icon in the status bar. What is that?

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Can you help me understand what application put  icon in the status bar ? it get disappears when Im trying to click on it to get the context menu.
Thank you !


texts: What is SiLabsUSBDriver.kext? Is this part of the official Yosemite system and if so, how do you know? Where can someone go to find this out from Apple directly? Thanks.


texts: Why is my iPod nano reading everything out loud and functioning abnormally?

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I just reset my iPod nano 7th gen via iTunes to remove some broken tracks and then resynced it, and when I unplugged it after disconnecting it, everything was quite broken.

First of all (with a headset plugged in) the iPod is reading everything out loud....screen dim, music, double tap to open, etc. But then, in conjunction with this, I can't control the screen like normal...you have to double-tap to open anything and I can't swipe side to side to get to settings so I can't try to change whatever mode this is. When you slide a finger over the icons, a little selection square moves over them with you.

What's going on?


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My iPhone will not connect to my wireless router, even when I put the password in.

How do I troubleshoot this problem?


texts: How do i get full capacity from Fusion drive on vmWare ESXi 6.0 Mac Mini 7,1

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I managed to install the free vmWare ESXi 6.0 hypervisor on a Mac Mini 7,1. It's running rather nicely from a USB memory.

The mini has a 2TB Fusion drive. My problem is that i can only get the 106 GB SSD drive to show for datastorage, not the remaining spinning platter capacity. Going to Configuration -> Storage -> Add storage will not discover any more disk (as won't connecting a USB3 HDD to the mac, but that doesn't quite surprise me).

What should i do to get all the disk capacity to use?


texts: How can I use an ssh key with a passphrase but not have to type the passphrase every time when working in a remote shell?

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Here's my situation:

I ssh into a server running OS X, and from that remote shell I want to perform pushes and pulls (via ssh) for a git repository whose local copy exists on this server and whose origin is on another server out in the internet. (In this specific case it's a bitbucket repo.) I have generated an ssh public/private key pair with a passphrase on the server and uploaded the public key to bitbucket.

Ordinarily when I would perform pushes and pulls on my local OS X system, I would do it through a window in Terminal.app, and I use OS X's keychain to handle my ssh passphrase so that I only have to type it in once per login session. But that doesn't work here because I'm working in a remote session.

Is there any way to not have to type in my passphrase every time, other than using a public/private key pair with no passphrase?


texts: Does iPhone's new HEVC video format also halve file size for 720p and 1080p?

texts: I've learnt the HEVC format halves storage space of recorded 4K videos.  Does it also halve the space if you record in 1080p and 720p?


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All my Apple devices are fairly new and apart from Lightning cables, all my peripherals are now USB-C.

But for photo editing I still like to use my 2015 27" iMac that was heavily upgraded. Now this iMac only has two Thunderbolt 2 ports and, obviously, no USB-C ports. I would like to add a hub to my iMac that allows me to use USB-C devices, like hard drives that are mostly just USB 2 or USB 3 anyway. A single USB-C port would be enough. At the moment I keep a spare set of USB-A to whatever cables around but it's getting increasingly annoying.

Is there a Thunderbolt 2 dock that would have a USB-C port or a way for me to use something like Satechis USB-C hub on my Thunderbolt 2 iMac? It does not need to be a Thunderbolt 3 port or support PD, all of which would require an active component.


texts: Does anyone know how to import a microphone mono audio into iphone 7? Can I use a bluetooth transmitter to carry the microphone audio? Can an APP to pick up the microphone audio via bluetooth? like Apple watch. Thanks.


texts: How can I reduce the mobile data used by the iPhone Mail app?

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I am on a 200 MB/month plan, and feel that Mail is responsible for most of my mobile data usage, sometimes pushing me over the 200 MB, even if I almost never use the iPhone in places where there is no WiFi. I can either setup the phone:

To use push or pull at a regular interval. In either case, it will sometimes download new mail in the background, while the phone is locked. And this means it will do so over 3G instead of WiFi, even if there is WiFi where I am.
To disable push and and set fetch to "manually". I guess this will reduce my mobile data usage, but I would then have to wait after launching Mail for it to download my mail.

Ideally, I'd like the iPhone to use "push" when over WiFi and "fetch manually" when over 3G, but there doesn't seem to be an option for this.

What would you say is the optimal setup to reduce the use of  mobile data, without going to "fetch manually"?


texts: Large drives and FileVault/TimeMachine on Mountain Lion

texts: Trying to use a 3TB disk for my backups, still running into what seems to be a known issue with "block sizes". When will this be fixed or how can I fix it myself before a downstream update?


texts: make airpods microphones disabled by default when pairing with a mac

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when pairing airpods with a mac, the sound quality is poor due to the fact it also uses them for microphone by default...

when I switch the audio input (microphone to internal), then quality of the airpods sound is excellent.

I don't want to do this step each time I pair airpods, is there a way to make the default microphone for mac is the internal one.


texts: Is there a way to set ForkLift as the default file viewer, to a degree? PathFinder somehow does this, see http://cocoatech.com/faqs#3, but how does it do this and could that option be set to redirect to ForkLift instead of PathFinder?