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My iPhone SE on iOS 12 has been acting strange recently.

Yesterday, it turned off at around 10% and when I tried to turn it on it said that it has no power. Two minutes later, it turned on and said it had 14% capacity remaining.

Today, when it was at around 10%, it turned off. Then I turned it on  and it said 12%. Two minutes later, it turned off. It says "connect to power."

After a few minutes I tried again and it turned on. Then it gives an error saying  that it "can’t connect to my mobile data network" and then the  phone crashes.

I turned it on again, and it worked normally.

What is causing this?

EDIT: After digging around my batter settings I found this:


texts: Does having Bluetooth enabled draw extra power when no devices are connected?

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I generally turn off Bluetooth on my Macs and iOS devices when I'm not actively using a Bluetooth device. My assumption is that this saves battery life, but I realize that I have no fact to back that up.

Does having Bluetooth enabled draw extra power when no paired devices are within range? What about when paired devices are in range but not connected?
Does turning off 'Discoverable' except when I need to pair to a device save power?


texts: Transferring OSX and Data by putting an SSD I had in my 2012 Macbook into my new 2015 Macbook Pro

texts: As the title says, I have an old SSD that I installed in my 2012 Macbook Pro with all of my files on it and was running Mojave. I now got a 2015 mac, which is running catalina. What's the best way to install my old SSD into this macbook (the old SSD is an upgrade from what's currently in the 2015 model I have) and have the OSX and data transfer safely?


texts: I am 15 year old developer who is currently learning iOS development. I've noticed that you must be at least 18 years old to publish an app. Should I decide to do just that, would it be possible to join the apple developer program even though I am underaged? I wish to use the apps I may submit as a talking point on CVs and applications for higher education.


texts: Multiple recurring log messages in Console. How to diagnose and correct?

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I'm trying to clean up my Mac a bit, and in doing so I noticed a few repeating error messages in the console. The first goes off every couple of minutes:

coreaudiod[12074]: Disabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive
coreaudiod[12074]: Enabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive

Also, I'm getting a lot of:

sandboxd[14589]: ([14589]) WebProcess(14589) deny mach-lookup ATS Query Port 268

These are running a few every minute. Another one appearing a lot is:

WindowServer[115]: CGXSetWindowTransform: Invalid window 0x1925

I'm guessing these aren't connected? But might this be slowing down my mac? Any help on these welcome.  I'm on a Mac Pro, running OS X 10.8.5


texts: How to reorganize labels in iPhone contacts?

texts: How to rename and delete these customized labels generated during adding or editing contacts on the iPhone?


texts: Repeated alerts after a missed call on an Iphone

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How can I get repeated alerts after a missed call on an iPhone SE?

I am looking for some way to blink the LED flash and vibrate, periodically after a call has been missed.

This periodic blinking and vibrating should continue infinitely, until I dismiss the alert.

The notification needs to be noticeable even when the phone is lying on the desk, and the screen is hidden by the flip case, so an on-screen popup is insufficient.

Decreased battery life is not a concern for me in this case. Optionally, this notification could be limited to times when the phone is connected to a charger.

Which setting or app would allow me to do this with an iPhone SE?

Something that works on an un-jailbroken phone would be greatly preferred.

What I found so far:

There is a setting for repeating message notifications, limited to at most 20 minutes after a missed message, but for some reason I was unable to find such a setting for repeating call notifications.

I also found a setting to blink the LED flash when the phone rings, but this only works for the exact moment the phone rings, it is not repeated at a later time.


texts: Uploading an edited preferences plist to a non-jailbroken iPhone running iOS 7.0

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I want to change a setting in one of my iOS device's plists, and upload it to the device without doing a full restore from backup.

How can I extract the file from an unencrypted backup on my Mac?
How can I upload the modified file to my device?


texts: MacBook Pro (5,5) restarts when powering microcontrollers

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My Macbook Pro (13-inch, mid 2009, Intel Core 2 Duo) has an odd problem with the USB ports. Occasionally, when plugging in, removing or restarting a microcontroller such as the Arudino or Teensy, the computer abruptly turns off and restarts. Afterwards, the computer displays a gray screen that says "Your computer restarted because of a problem... etc."

I'm not quite sure if this is related to a problem with my computer, an issue with the microcontrollers drawing too much current or my battery. I know that microcontrollers are sometimes forced to restart if they are asked to source too much current. eg. powering a servo. However, I would expect that a laptop would be able to source enough current to a bare microcontroller to avoid being shut off.

I also should mention that my battery condition is "replace now". I can still use it for ~30 minutes without the power cord, and as far as my memory goes, my computer was always plugged in when this problem occurs.

I read that one problem might be that my PCU might need to be reset. I believe that I reset it using the "SCOP" keyboard shortcut on start-up but the computer gives no indication of this.


texts: Recovering GPT from a failed Mojave upgrade

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Background: My partner decided to upgrade her work iMac to Mojave. Apparently, towards the end of the process, it hung on a black screen, said an error had occurred and would try to recover. It cycled this process a few times before aborting and asking to either restore from a time machine backup or do a fresh OS install.

Having no Time Machine backup, she opted for the fresh install. The first hint that something went wrong with the drive is that the only choice to install to was her external (non-Time machine) drive, which she did. This installed El Capitan, which does not support APFS.

Theory: Because this is a Fusion drive, it didn't get converted to APFS until now. Part of this process must've gone awry and now the drive is unrecognisable. Because the backup OS that installed itself to the secondary drive is only El Capitan, it's not capable of identifying APFS volumes. diskutil showed two disjoint SSD and HDD volumes with no CoreStorage group present.

In my bumbling attempts to fix this, I did not research ahead of time to find out about the Mojave APFS conversion. I tried recreating a HFS+ partition, then running Disk Rescue on that. Naturally, it didn't find anything. I took a drive image (stupidly after the fact...) home to try and run forensics on it, but because it was likely encrypted, it seems unlikely I'll find anything.

I did, however, notice what looks like an APFS block header at the beginning of the partition:

1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes copied, 7.4092e-05 s, 6.9 MB/s
00000000  68 4b 56 14 14 fc fd 0c  01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |hKV.............|
00000010  04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  01 00 00 80 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000020  4e 58 53 42 00 10 00 00  ac 45 8d 0e 00 00 00 00  |NXSB.....E......|
00000030  01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000040  02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  64 b8 83 b0 64 92 43 35  |........d...d.C5|
00000050  b9 07 a5 af d1 9d 31 78  06 04 00 00 00 00 00 00  |......1x........|
00000060  05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  18 01 00 00 5c 6c 00 00  |............\l..|
00000070  01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  19 01 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000080  08 00 00 00 0e 00 00 00  06 00 00 00 02 00 00 00  |................|
00000090  0a 00 00 00 04 00 00 00  00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
000000a0  93 9a 28 00 00 00 00 00  01 04 00 00 00 00 00 00  |..(.............|
000000b0  00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00  02 04 00 00 00 00 00 00  |....d...........|
000000c0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00000200

As far as I can tell, ac 45 8d 0e 00 00 00 00 would indicate 244,139,436 blocks of 4096 bytes, yielding 999,995,129,856 bytes -- just around the 1TB drive size.

Because the partition still has some APFS block headers seemingly intact, I'm hoping it might be possible to overwrite the GPT to tell it to treat the partitions as APFS instead.

I see a few pitfalls to this theory:

Fusion Drive: Because this is a fusion drive, I might be able to restore the HDD drive by itself, but that doesn't mean it's going to be at all functional...
Encryption: Because the faculty requires that drives be encrypted, it was likely HFS+ encrypted before the upgrade. I don't know how APFS encryption operates, but this sort of procedure sounds like it might be likely to mess with that.
Overwriting the partition table: In my misguided attempt to recreate the partitions, I wonder if I might've made things unrecoverable. Even if we didn't write anything to the fresh partitions, it'll still have created the usual .DS_Store and related files.


texts: If I use CMD + C on my iPhone the information is stored even after restart. But not on Notebook. Why?

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If I want to copy some information on my iPhone and use CMD + C for it I can paste it with CMD + V after restart. After I turn my iPhone off and on again.

For example I have typed in Safari Browser:

  Hello Stackoverflow

I mark this two words and use CMD + C.

I restart my iPhone. Open Safari, use CMD + V and get:

  Hello Stackoverflow

With MacBook Pro the stored information cannot be accessed after restart.

Maybe its some rules, that the information on mobile version of Apple OS is stored und for "normal" OS, that is used on Apple Notebooks and Desktops is deleted after restart?


texts: Rootless custom scheduling of Time Machine backups

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It has been asked how to customize the backup schedule of Time Machine, but the solutions in the answers only seem to work in releases of OS X that weren’t “rootless”, i.e. before 10.11 El Capitan (or was it 10.10 already?). The recommended tool Time Machine Scheduler also doesn’t seem to have been updated since 2013.

Is there a solution to adjust the backup intervals for current (2015+) versions of OS X?


texts: Applescript (Adobe Illustrator) find coincident X coordinate on a path for any given Y coordinate

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I have two lines as shown in the screenshot below (Adobe Illustrator file) which my script produces.

Is there any way, using AppleScript, to find the value of X for the coincident points on the curvy vertical lines for any given value of Y?  For example if I wanted to add horizontal lines between the two vertical paths at the points indicated on the screenshot...

EDIT: I'm guessing that this is not going to be a built in function of AppleScript / Illustrator but I'm also guessing there must be a way to map a point on the path from the information used to build the path... ie the previous and next anchor points and the positions of the handles...

Could anyone explain how this works?  What the formula might be?


texts: How to request that spotlight indexes one specific folder only using a command line?

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Context

I cannot seem to be able to get TimeMachine to backup my HD, because a given
directory seems to contain corrupted files so that I get this kind of message in the Console:

  com.apple.backupd: Indexing a file failed. Returned 1 for: /Users/JohnDoe/This.Folder/this.file

Question

How to request that spotlight indexes one specific folder only?

My purpose is to identify in one shot all the defective files

Ideally I would prefer that the indexing be temporarily and quick (I.e it should not impact the default index) since my purpose is to identify defective files.


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I apologize in advance if this question does not belong, but .. what software do you use for simple image manipulation on your mac?

Tasks I am looking for to do, are no more complicated then:

Re-size existing image to certain, specific size
Create image with a certain size

I am working on an iOS application and have found out that instead of worrying about how to re-size images, scale them etc .. i should just get images of the size i need (doh!)

I am not looking for things like Photoshop, rather something much simpler (and free if possible)

Thank you for your time.


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I used Migration Assistant to move files from my old mac to my new mac, and I want to now inherit backups from my old mac. However, when the prompt came up, I accidentally told it not to inherit backups since I thought that it would overwrite my old backups.

So the issue now is that I try the command line prompt

sudo tmutil inheritbackup *machine_directory*

and it asks me for my password and theoretically it works. However, when I open Time Machine, it still says that the first backup was None and the last backup was None. Can anyone provide a solution to this?


texts: iPhone 5s email deleted from Inbox not synchronizing correctly to Exchange server/Outlook inbox

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I have an iPhone that is configured for Activesync and has been working fine. Over the weekend I was completely offline and while my iPhone was not connected to the internet I deleted around 450 email messages from the iPhone inbox. Around 18 hours later I was back in cell phone range, the iPhone synchronized my new email messages, all looked good.

Then a few hours later I launched Outlook and found all the messages I had deleted on the iPhone were still present in Outlook. I logged into OWA and confirmed the messages were still showing there too so the Exchange server has not been updated with the changes I made on the phone.

Now my iPhone is happily receiving new messages and if I delete these from the iPhone they are deleted in Outlook as expected. However, my Outlook Inbox is still showing the 450ish messages I deleted. These messages have not synchronized back to the iPhone.

I want my Inbox as it currently appears on the phone, not as it currently appears in Outlook.

How do I resolve this apparent sync conflict and just make my iphone 'win' so that it updates the Exchange server?
Why did being offline for around 18 hours while deleting messages on the iphone cause this to happen?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.


texts: accessing Keychain Access from terminal - OSX

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I am on OSX and using my terminal to access my Keychain Access. So I use this command

security find-internet-password -a myaccount -s myservice -g

and it works correctly but before I can get the response to this query, there is a pop-up showing and telling me that security wants to use confidential data kept in the Keychain... (translated from french). Why is it so? How can I desactivate it?

Btw, I tried to ssh to my own computer, in order to prevent the popup to show, but then I got no output when I ran the same command...


texts: Best OS X TODO app that can be synced with Android?

texts: Which is the best OS X "TO DO"-app that I can sync my Android device with?


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I'm running CCC (carbon Copy Cloner) beta 3.4.4-b1

I would like to change the Hard Drive in my iMac and wanted to know if there are any hurdles, steps I should take in cloning my current Hard Drive

UPDATE:

Looks like my HD Dock stops the hard drive disk after a long period while backing up, Here is what I have:

http://www.sabrent.com/category/hard-drive-enclosures/DSH-USB2/


texts: iPhoto11 Pictures disappear after importing

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After upgrading to iPhoto11, all the pictures i had at the time remained in my library, but now when i import photos from my camera memory card they only show up in last import, not in 'event's or 'photos' and after a day or so they no longer show up in last import it  comes up empty and says 'no photos'. and leaves me unable to find the photos in any other section of iPhoto.

By searching through finder i can see the photos, but i cannot get them to show up in the actual iPhoto pane so can only view them one at a time on preview. I tried dragging the photos into iphoto from here, but they say they cannot be imported. and that the files are already in the library.

I've tried rearranging the photos by date (ascending/descending) but they do not appear either way.

I would be really grateful of any advice on how i can find them!

Thank you


texts:
I'm trying to get CPU temperature from the terminal using sysctl.

Command:

sysctl machdep.xcpm.cpu_thermal_level

Output:

machdep.xcpm.cpu_thermal_level: 0

But the given temperature is not correct(Original temperature is: 51c).

How does the temperature is calculated by sysctl? Sometimes the temperature is 0.

Why the temperature is wrong?

Thank you.


texts: How do I enable Find My Mac in a Macbook Pro (Mid 2009) running OS X 10.7.2?

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After updating my system to Mac OS X 10.7.2 I was able to activate all features of iCloud, except for Find My Mac that stays greyed. It says "Recovery partition required".

I have a Macbook Pro, Middle 2009 model, and it was updated from Leopard to Snow Leopard to Lion.

Searching Apple's support website I could find articles on how to create the Recovery HD in an external drive, but I can't find how to create the partition in the internal drive. I have enough free space to repartition, and I have already created a 1 GB partition at the end of the free space (Apple recommends 1GB when creating the partition in an external drive).

I understand the Recovery HD is necessary for Filevault 2 too, so there must be a way of creating it after installation, but I can't find how. Anyone knows how to do that?


texts: Is there an app I can use to automatically track screen time for each desktop on my MacBook?

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I usually forget to start/stop time trackers when I'm working on different projects and tasks.
So I think it would be better if there is an app that can automatically track my screen time on each desktop. That means I can create a separate desktop for each task, and when I switch to it, the time tracker would automatically start. When I switch to another desktop, or when I lock the screen, or when the computer sleeps, it should automatically stop the timer.


texts: Dropbox.com not accessible on Yosemite 10.10.3

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I've OS X Yosemite 10.10.3. Since sometime dropbox.com is not accessible on my mac. Now since few days dropbox in my finder doesn't sync. I uninstalled it and now I cannot install as dropbox.com doesn't connect. I have done all the updates since updating to Yosemite. The traceout shows that the second last hop blocks the connection.
Could anybody please help me?


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Here's what I got, a Panasonic docking system without aux in. I want to use an AirPort Express and turn it into a AirPlay-enabled speaker, so I need a cable that has a female 30-pin connector at one end, and 3.5mm jack at another.

I did do some research on the Internet, I see people selling those, BUT, since I live in Taiwan, I can't get one. I'm wondering if I can buy two cables:

a 30-pin connector extender cable that has a female 30 pin connector at one end that I'll need to attach to the male dock 30 pin connector
a male to male headphone cable

If I knew the pin out for the 30 pin protocol, I might be able to cut and splice the two together.

What I'm needing to try this experiment is to know what the pin out is for a 30 pin connector and if I can simply wire the audio out from the AirPort Express into a female 30 pin connector by simply splicing wires. (or to hear from someone that knows that I would need to have some other resistor or voltage present to tell the dock that it's getting an stereo input from "my iPhone" which is really the cable to the express.


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tl;dr: Is there a list of serveradmin command *:* commands ?

On mac servers, serveradmin can be quite useful; especially when sending commands to its services, such as serveradmin command smb:command = getConnectedUsers

Apple's outdated (but still useful) command line guide (pdf link) lists these, but a lot has changed since 10.5 ... notably, samba/afp.  Some commands which worked up until Mavericks no longer work in Yosemite and beyond.

My search for a list returns a good deal of links up until Mavericks; but, that is not so useful.

Is there anywhere which has compiled the commands for newer versions of the OS?


texts: View SSL/TLS certificate in Safari 5+ when no padlock icon shown

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According to Apple,

  With Safari 5 through 5.1.7, a lock icon appears near the top right
  corner [only] if all of the webpage's content uses a secure connection.

That's all very well, but normally to view the SSL/TLS certificate for a webpage serving content over HTTPS, one would click the padlock icon.

Because the icon is not present on pages that serve only some of their content over SSL/TLS, there ought to be another way to view the certificate, but what is it?


texts: Many unknown "Frame xxxxx-xxxxx" files. Do you know what these are and can I delete them?

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Asking for a friend on a more recent if not most recent Mac OS.
He has a whole bunch of files taking up a bunch of space.  These files are numbered, not necessarily incrementally and named "Frame" followed by a 5 or 6 digit number, a dash and another 5 or 6 digit number.
Example filenames:
"Frame 75776 - 76799"
"Frame 290816 - 291839"
These files are in the "Documents" folder, take up a quite few dozen Gigabytes if I understand correctly and are identified by the OS as type "TextEdit.app Document"
All have the same datestamp (and relatively similar/kind of seqeuntial timestamps) and they are all 101.7 MB in size.
I'm assuming some kind of temp file or something that wasn't cleaned up properly but idk from what.  Google isn't turning anything up and I would like to be sure before I advise he can delete them.
Anyone know what these are, how they might have come to be and if it's safe to just delete?
Thanks much.
EDIT - I should add that the contents of the files do not appear to be text as the 'type' implies.  They seem to be some kind of binary blob.


texts: If i deleted something from iPad notes how can I get it back?

texts: If I deleted something from iPad  notes can I get it back somehow?


texts: Why do I get this error: "The name of your computer is already in use on this network"?

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For 5 years now this bug has apparently persisted with each version of OS X. I'm now on Catalina 10.15.3 and a much newer Mac.

It is apparently WiFi related because disabling WiFi and using a wired connection doesn't result in the problem. It doesn't matter what I name it. This page made years ago claims to have the fix, this does not fix it at all.  If I type hostname at the terminal I still get the proper name but it keeps changing the name that would appear on the network.

Is there any progress or fix on this front or will this always be a bug in Mac OS?


texts: cgpdftraster quit unexpectedly: Report sent to apple; just after installing Sierra ; canon 640 will not print from rear tray

texts: Canon 640 will not load & print from rear tray after installing Serria?


texts: After upgrading to iTunes 11, I cannot see my iPad mini

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I'd like to access my iPad mini file sharing via iTunes 11. However, I cannot see the iPad mini on the left hand Sidebar (View > Show Sidebar).

I also pulled out and re-inserted the USB cable a few times, quitted and restart iTunes 11 a few times.


texts: Automatic iOS update does not work on iPhone XS

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I have an iPhone XS running iOS 13.3.1. I have just had the following screen:

Nothing new here. My problem is that it doesn't work. I have been doing this repeatedly for the past week. In fact, I can't remember the last time my iPhone successfully updated overnight. I don't get any error messages, no "Update Failed" or anything, I just wake up the next day and my phone hasn't updated. And at some point I'll see the above screen again.

My phone is sitting on a wireless charger and I am connected to wifi. The version I am trying to update to is 13.4.1. I can see no reason for it not to update.

Obviously I can update manually, but I would much prefer to get this working. How can I find out what is going wrong? Are there any logs anywhere I can look at?

UPDATE:

After a week of trying, this has finally updated overnight, although I have no idea what, if anything, I did differently this time, so would still like to know why it didn't update before.


texts: Can I default the keyboard to use the symbols instead of numbers?

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I type @ or $ or & or * way more often than I do 2, 4, 7 or 8.

Especially with () it is usually a bit more difficult to hit ⇧Shift 9 and immediately ⇧Shift + 0.

Can I somehow default the numeric keys to print the ⇧Shifted values by default, and print the digits when I actually use ⇧Shift?

This is not remapping of values, this is using the modifier key always for certain keys. This is not a duplicate, I do not want to use Ukelele for this.


texts: Map Command-E to summon Finder file manager

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OSX: Is there a procedure to configure Command-E to invoke the Finder file manager?  It would be nice if it were to open a new instance of finder, regardless if there is an instance open. Unfortunately, a Google search of said keywords in the title have not produced a viable solution.   This key sequence was chosen because I already have it ingrained from using Windows to invoke Command-E to summon a file manager.
Preferred solutions make use of existing OSX functionality and do not require purchase of applications.
This question is significantly more constrained than Is there a keyboard shortcut to bring up Finder? in the sense, the current questions is confined to Command-E and not any other hotkey.  It would be nice if the moderators could unlock this post and I can move / add my solution to this question for the community.


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I have an HomePod and I want to listen Radio in iTunes on morning. So far it's not possible to set an alarm using a playlist or a radio in the HomePod settings.

So I decided to use iTunes on my Mac applescript in calendar (to launch it every day).

I found a way to target the HomePod using this command in AppleScript :

tell Application "iTunes"
 set current Airplay devices to Airplay device "kitchen"
End tell

My problem is the radio. There is a Radio section in iTunes where you can find Beats 1 but other radios selected by Apple. I want to play one of this radio.

I try many ways but couldn't find a nice way to do it...

I tried :

 play track myRadio of playlist myRadio

or
    source myRadio"
    play myRadio

Nothing work.. I would like to know how to access the Radio section in iTunes. Which is a spacial kind of section.

I found away to do it but It's not reliable :

open url (and use the radio Url from iTunes)

Using the script I was able to get the object's information :

 get name of current track
 --> "Name of currently payed track iTunes selected"
 get name of current playlist
 --> "Name of my radio station"

Thanks


texts: Vimeo embedded videos don't show in Safari

texts: Vimeo embedded videos do not appear in Safari although they appear in all other browsers on the same machine. Not only do the video not play but the placeholder where the video should be on the page is blank. This seems to be Safari 5 related.


texts: How to auto connect to VPN upon login/boot?

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So far, I've been using the build-in VPN tool of Lion.

I would like to auto connect my VPN whenever I'm connected to the internet.

Is it possible to auto connect my VPN whenever I'm connected to the internet with the build in tool?

If auto connect is not possible with the build in tool, can you provide me with an alternative that is free?


texts: How to fix missing application icons on external HDD?

texts:
I am trying to use external applications on my MacBook Air 2019 by making an alias and putting it in the launchpad.
However, the icons show up as generic on the external HDD and on the launchpad. Is there a way to restore the favicon in both locations?


texts: MacOS dictionary look up stopped working

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I'm suddenly unable to use the dictionary look up feature in MacOS. When I choose "Look up" on a word I get a dialog saying that "Look Up now shows personalized suggestions... etc" and a button on the bottom that says "Continue" (see image). But the button does not respond to clicking it, so I'm stuck with this message. Neither updating the OS nor restarting seems to mend the issue.

Using MacOS High Sierra 10.13.3


texts: Shadows on the top of my iPhone turn the screen off (iOS 10, 6+)

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Ever since upgrading to iOS 10, my iPhone 6+ has decided that whenever a shadow is cast near the top of phone, the screen needs to turn off.

This was a great feature that Apple first used only in the Phone all the way back in the original iPhone - it disables the screen when you hold it to your ear, thus conserving power and preventing accidental touches from your ear.

In iOS 10, Apple seems to have made the astoundingly poor decision to make this behavior occur always. Anytime I try to interact with the top of my phone - pull down notification center, switch to a prior app, or use the nav bar in an app - I have to be super careful. Move your finger just a few mm too high and the whole screen shuts off for a few seconds.

How do I disable this? I assumed it had something to do with Siri, so I completely disabled Siri. Nope - same behavior as before. Does anyone know how to actually fix this?


texts: iTunes Match mismatch between OS X and iOS

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Yesterday, I decided to go ahead and subscribe to iTunes Match. One of the first CDs I imported after having activated iTunes Match was a really old compilation CD, with various tracks from various artists.

Some of the songs were matched with songs in the iTunes Store (correct songs, but a different compilation album from the one I was importing), whereas most of them were just uploaded. In iTunes in OS X the album displays correctly, grouped together as the album I uploaded and with the album art that iTunes found for me. However, on my iOS device, all of the uploaded songs are grouped together, whereas the matched songs are displayed as separate albums, with the album art from the albums to which they were matched - albeit with the same album name as my uploaded tracks.

How it looks in iTunes:

How it looks on iOS:

Has anybody got any ideas about how to fix this?


texts: Can the Internet sharing on proxy network be tracked?

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In my office I have Mac Mini that is connected to an ethernet cable for internet. They don't allow us to use the office wifi on mobile etc.

So what I am going to do now, is create hotspot out of my Mac Mini machine for my phone's use.

But I want to know if it can be tracked as the office Mac is already on a proxy network. Will the IT guys come to know about it?


texts: If I block and then unblock someone, will I get their SMS sent while that person was blocked?

texts: While using an iPhone 5, iOS 9, if I block someone, wait some time, and then unblock that person, will I receive SMS messages sent to me while that person was blocked?


texts: Why are drivers not working in Windows 10 with bootcamp?

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My colleague has two MacBook Pro 13 (Retina) laptops and has setup Windows 10 through bootcamp on both. The bootcamp wizard has been installed on both but there is a problem with the Thunderbolt drivers on one of them. When an external display is connected via Thunderbolt, it does not display anything until the machine is rebooted. There is a USB device in device manager that has an issue "set address failed" which we suspect is related to the problem.

The hardware is not quite identical... the problem machine is a 2014 MacBook Pro whilst the one that works is a 2015 MacBook Pro. Both are running El Capitan.

Any suggestions?


texts: How can I recover from a frozen fullscreen application / game?

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A few times now, Starcraft 2 has frozen up on my wife's Macbook Pro, but the mouse pointer still moves and the sound keeps playing.  I can also SSH in from a different machine.  The keyboard shortcut for force-quit doesn't work though, and nothing in-game is clickable.  Command-tab won't switch windows either.

If this were a straight-up Linux box, I'd find the application process and kill it from an SSH login.  If that failed, I might take out the X server.  Can I do anything like this in OSX?  Is there something on the "problem" machine I can do locally instead?


texts: How to clear or delete my recent TextEdit.app documents list? I run Mojave 10.14.4


texts: Minimum virtual memory (swapfile) size setting

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Is possible set the minimum swapfile size in OS X?

Currently OS X allocating swapfiles on demand, e.g. when when need 3.2GB will allocate 4GB and so on. But when the swap requirements start getting low the system deletes un-needed swap files. All these IO operations are very IO intensive.

Therefore looking for a way how to define the minimum swap file size, e.g. I want default allocate minimum 4GB virtual memory. When the system will need more than 4GB will allocate on demand, but at releasing will never release under 4GB size.

Is this possible somewhat? (using lion)


texts: Late 2013 RMBP switches to SCO(very poor quality) codec when using earbuds microphone

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It switches back to AAC once I pick the internal microphone as an input.
Does this mean that the bluetooth version is too old to handle both audio input and output with the earbuds? If so, can a bluetooth 5.0 replacement for the network card be purchased somewhere?
Based on the system report, my current bluetooth is 4.0 (0x6).
The earbuds are Samsung Galaxy Buds+
They work nicely on my iPhone X.


texts: I use the “British PC” layout on macOS, and I’ve started using a keyboard with my iPad (iOS 13.4.1), and I want to use the same layout on it. However there’s only “British” and “International – PC” neither of which match the British PC layout. Is there a way to change the keyboard layout to match the macOS layout?


texts: How to run a bash script from the desktop?

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I have a .sh file with a #!/bin/bash header. I'm able to run it from the terminal, using chmod and ./ but is there a way to perform these two operations from the desktop (i.e. by clicking on it) ?

Btw, I'm familiar with linux, but not with OS X.


texts: What technical requirements need to be satisfied by a DVI KVM for these two Macs?

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I have a Mac Pro (2008 eight core 2.8 GHz), a MacBook Air (mid-2011 Core i5 1.7 GHz), and a 30" Apple cinema display (maximum resolution 2560x1600). I have a mini displayport to dual-link DVI adapter for the MacBook Air.

I want to set up the cinema display with a 2-port DVI KVM that fully supports both of these machines, ideally with ports for both DVI and USB.

What are the technical requirements I need to know about to ensure full compatibility with my hardware? Is it possible that some DVI KVM products would not support the maximum resolution of my cinema display?


texts: Site Blocker for Mobile Safari Google Searches

texts: Is there a way to block content scraper sites from Google searches on Mobile Safari?  I would like something like the "Personal Blocklist" now available for Google Chrome.


texts: Can AirPods be be used with multiple Charging Case units?

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Can I use one pair of AirPods with two or more Charging case units? Can I take turns charging the case, and deposit AirPods into either without any bother?

Apple sells a Charging Case for USD $69.
Apple announced their intention to soon sell a Qi charging case upgrade for AirPods.


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I wanted to have a clean Yosemite installation.
Therefor I deleted the existing partition to make sure a completely clean installation is made.
The problem is that I cannot choose the partition to install to any more.
After accepting the license there is no partition to select from. Except for the recovery partition itself.
Macintosh HD is still there in the partition tool. but I cannot select it or rework it in any way because all options are greyed out.

Tried booting via recovery partition and stick.

How do I get back to having a partition to install to?


texts: After MacOS High Sierra install, localhost fails and apache has syntax errors

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After upgrading to MacOS High Sierra, I haven't been able to access my localhost. I tried restarting Apache, but it still didn't work. So I did apachectl configtest and got this error message:

  httpd: Syntax error on line 544 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:
  Syntax error on line 8 of /private/etc/apache2/other/+php-osx.conf:
  Cannot load /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so into server:
  dlopen(/usr/local/php5/libphp5.so, 10): Symbol not found: _environ\n
  Referenced from: /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so\n  Expected in:
  /usr/sbin/httpd\n

Line 544 of my httpd.conf file is
Include /private/etc/apache2/other/*.conf

The +php-osx.conf is an alias to entropy-php.conf, and line 8 of that file is
LoadModule php5_module        /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so

The remaining lines of entropy-php.conf are:
LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so

<IfModule mod_php5.c>

    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
    AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

    <IfModule mod_dir.c>
        DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
    </IfModule>

</IfModule>

I am using Apache/2.4.28 (Unix) and PHP 5.6.30.

Everything was working fine until the update. I have searched online for any solution this issue, but to no avail. Someone posted a similar question here a couple of years ago regarding the same syntax error, however, he didn't provide enough details or any follow-up regarding his setup, and no solution could be offered: Mac apache not working - apachectl configtest errors


texts: Using a MacBook Pro Retina Display with USB3 external drives

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I am trying to find out if working directly from a USB3 external hard drive will slow down the Mac's performance in using software such as Photoshop CC. I realise this is not purely a Mac specific question, but I can't find the answer elsewhere.

Basically I need to free up disk space on my Mac, and want to work with files stored on the USB drive. Is this acceptable practice or is it better practice to keep the files I wish to work on stored on the Mac's internal drive, and then only use the USB drive for storing files and backing up?

The most common files I work with are large resolution photographs, and the software I use most is Photoshop CC.


texts: With Yosemite pop-over doesn't work when holding keys down anymore

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I always used the accented character pop-over menu often, by holding a key for a second or two.  Now, with Yosemite suddenly all I get is something like:

  Resumeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

When I want the chance to type:

  Resumé

I feel like I'm missing something obvious.


texts: What file permissions do I need to change after 10.8.3 restore?

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My 08 mb, OSX Mt Lion, crashed so I bought new 2012 MBPr. Luckily, I backed everything up.  Migrated everything from 08mb over to new MBPr.  I noticed that when I deleted files, it skipped the trash can.  My home folder did not have me as admin with RW permissions so I had to add myself and give myself RW access.

Before, when I opened iTerm (similar to Terminal), it would say computer name:~ username$. Now, I see an odd hexadecimal name for my computer.

How do I change the hexadecimal code to my computer name?

Is this the correct default permissions for Home folder?

Thanks.


texts: How can I stop my old broken phone getting my text messages?

texts: My iPhone cracked its screen and presently i cannot get past the locked access screen.  Got a new phone but the old phone continues to show me my new text messages.  I cannot get into old phone to change any settings.  Anything else I can do?


texts: How can I set the Mac OS X screensaver when not logged in?

texts: When logged in to my user account, the screensaver selected in System Preferences is used. However, when on the login screen before logging in or using fast user switching a different screensaver is used. How do I set the screensaver used on the login screen?


texts: Logic Pro does not recognise midi keyboard

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When I plug my midi keyboard (Komplete Kontrol M32) in Logic does not try to connect it. It just says "Changed number of MIDI inputs/outputs". I can use the keyboard to play notes but a lot of the buttons don't work. There is nothing in Control Surfaces.
But if I go to Audio Midi Setup > Midi Studio my keyboard is recognised.

I am running Big Sur 11.1, Logic Pro 10.6.1.


texts: Is the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M on the MacBook Pro good for gaming?

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I want to know what kind of games can I play with my MacBook Pro before I purchase them. Can I play something beyond Bejeweled? Type of games that I am interested in playing:

Call of Duty
Counter Strike Source
Civilization


texts: Trying to Transfer Large Mac OS to System with Less Storage

texts: Trying to transfer data from a 400GB Macbook pro to a smaller sized drive (250GB). System and Private directories are taking up a huge amount of space. Can I safely transfer most things and exclude the private directory ? What directories are critical for functionality? I apologize I am rathe new to the Mac file system. Any help is appreciated


texts: Locked out of Macbook Pro after switching user accounts

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I couldn't log on to my corporate macbook pro today after cleaning the keyboard. So I switched user accounts because I had that option.
That showed a logon screen.
but instead of my name being in the user field it is blank. It does not accept any variation of my name or email and my password.

If I restart, I get my corporate logon screen, I am able to logon to that, accept my corporate splash screen , but then instead of taking me to my desktop and old user account, it takes me to the switch user logon screen that I initially had and there is no other option except to shut down or sleep.
What is going on and how can I log back on to my computer?


texts: Garage Band does not have Podcast creation option

texts: I had Garage Band in Snowleopard which had option to create podcast. I upgraded OSX and get new Garage Band which does not have such option. What should I do now?


texts: Troubleshooting Slugglish Post-desktop Startup

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I have a mid-2010 MBP, with 8gb RAM and an aftermarket 7200RPM hard drive, running Snow Leopard 10.6. I have been using this SL install for about 10 months, and the desktop is barely usable for 3-5 minutes after Finder appears.

I've pruned my LoginItems down to the minimum (which is still a lot...) but I'm betting there's some cruft elsewhere that I can trim.

Googling the issue reveals tons of moronic clean-up-your-mac for idiots guides. Can someone provide a more technical synopsis of OSX' startup process? What are some other optimizations I can perform to speed up startup? Is there a way I can delay startup processes over a larger interval to minimize hard-drive thrashing?

My goal is to have a a usable session within 10-20 seconds of Finder/Launcher appearing. I really don't want to reformat just to get performance back.

Thank you!

Tom


texts: Restoring iPhone contacts from backup immediately undoes itself

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By accident, I deleted most of my contacts on my iPhone. They were also on another device, and were deleted from that one as well when they were deleted off of the iPhone. I restored the iPhone from a backup and they appeared for a minute…then disappeared again. I tried to restore it from the backup again and the same thing happened.

How can I fix this?


texts: How to take a screenshot when you are using screen sharing

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I am accessing a mac using screen sharing.

If I try to take a screenshot of a window using the built-in screenshot tool, I find that the screenshot consists of white background with shadow border as below.

Can anyone point out how to take screenshot while using screen sharing?

Edit-

The mac that is accessing through screen sharing is running macOS Mojave (10.14.6)
I am using TigerVNC client software running on Linux to access the mac.

Edit 2-

I find that taking a screenshot of a window using the built-in screenshot tool works if it meets the following conditions-

The window of which you are taking the screenshot should be the currently active window.
The screenshot should be on a timer. After you click on capture and select a window, a countdown timer appears. You select the window one more time so that it becomes the active window and then wait for the screenshot
to be taken
The window should be recently redrawn (or refreshed, I do not know the correct word). Try to scroll up/down in the window or do anything so that the window gets redrawn.


texts: Macbook Pro battery life with Android Studio 2.2 running

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I have a late 2013 Macbook Pro Retina 15 inch with i7 2.3 GHz, 16GB Ram, nVidia 750m 2GB and 500GB PCIe SSD.
I've always been happy with the machine and battery life, except when I work in Android Studio (always updated to the latest version).
I can never get past 2,5 - 3 hours of battery life. Is this normal ?
I never run the emulator, as I always use a real device to test my apps.

I've tried SMC and PRAM reset with no impact.

Any ideas?


texts: How to sync EXIF data and date information from iPhoto to original files and flickr

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I've recently started a process of scanning old photo albums. I had settled into a nice workflow scanning a few images at a time and using iPhoto to add descriptions and change the dates, thinking that checking the "modify original files" box as I did so would in fact modify the original files. Not so.

I uploaded my first album to Flickr (using the iPhoto share feature, too) and was disappointed that the hundreds of photos from the 90s all have a date of July 30, 2014. Checking the files, there's no EXIF information at all, and the date created/modified are of course still July 30, 2014.

So I have three questions and I suppose I'd be satisfied with an answer to any of them:

Is there any way to copy iPhoto date information down to the original file? I don't really want to put tens of hours of work into something not usable outside of iPhoto. I'd prefer this because I'm used to iPhoto now and use it for my modern pictures too
Is there a way to at least preserve the iPhoto date when sharing to flickr? I was surprised that the built-in share function didn't do so
Has anyone had any success doing a similar project with software other than iPhoto?
Thank you!


texts: Find a file/folder within another folder with OSX UI

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I often have project folders clientA, clientB, personalproj1 etc
and often they all have commonly used files/filers e.g. They might all have myCode.js, so when I type myReusedCode.js in spotlight (or alfred) it will return every file. I REALLY want to be able to type something like this (into Alfred)find clientB myCode.js to get THAT instance of myCode.js

I realise its possible via terminal - but I really wanna do this via finder as most of my "next steps" invovle the UI. I'd like to do it via Alfred if at all possible, i really like that app.

Any ideas/product recommendations?


texts: Can you know the macOS version from the firmware version in Macs?

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I’d like to know if it’s possible to know what macOS version is installed in a Mac (such as macOS 10.14.3) if you can get the firmware version (such as in System information).

I sometimes cannot log into a customer’s Mac because it’s Filevault encrypted.  So this way, by starting the Mac from a macOS external volume, I can get the firmware version, and, hopefully, the macOS version.

Is there any website that lists firmware version and corresponding macOS version? such as:

Boot ROM Version: 238.0.0.0.0      macOS 10.14.4

or the same firmware version could be in different versions of macOS?

Any help much appreciated.


texts: Can I use Back To My Mac's mDNS address and for ssh and other routing of traffic?

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On Lion and iCloud, the old MobileMe and Snow Leopard mDNS naming has changed and no longer works.

I'm wondering how to use command line tools to find out the DNS name that Apple has assigned to my Mac.  I want to use that dns name on other devices that are not OSX (like Prompt on my iPad/iPhone) to ssh back to my Mac when I'm out and about.


texts: Whenever I pick up my computer and it's on, it makes this horrible scratching sound. Where is this sound coming from? Am i wrecking the computer when this happens? How can i prevent this from happening?


texts: Pyautogui not entering all characters when using typewrite function

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we are trying to automate the SecurityAgent dialog where we are inputting password using pyautogui in 10.13 OSx

password = "12345678"
using

pyautogui.typewrite(password)

this function solved the problem. However, we are running this script many number of times in the same machine

Am not sure if it is because of the machine slowness or something , only 7 characters are getting written on the screen and enter is clicked which fails the step.

i also tried adding interval and pause value in pyautogui. But it doesnt help. Randomly script is failing.

Instead of typing a whole sequence i tried to run a loop like below

for c in password:
  pyautogui.press(c)

Still it didnt help. Can someone help with the alternate solution ?


texts: Audio balance changes randomly in MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch' mid-2012

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I'm having some strange issues on my MBP Retina running OS X 10.8.2.

The audio balance changes, and the right speaker is almost muted.

Anyone know what could be wrong here?


texts: Battery discharge while Macbook was turned off in 1 week. Possible causes?

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I brought my MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon about 1 month ago, and I'm using it to work on pet projects occasionally, but not daily. I left it unused for one week and when I turned it on it wasn't starting, as the battery was drained (the screen indicator was showing).
AFAIK laptops should not discharge entirely after a mere 1 week of no use. Charging it back went fine, the OS is reporting the battery health is good, coconutBattery was also showing that everything is ok, the battery has 3 cycles so far. I ran last shutdown in the terminal to double-check shutdowns and exclude the possibility that I put it to sleep instead. I also rand Apple Diagnostics and no problem was found, so I'd assume it's not the logic board or any other hardware. After charging I also did a quick test to see how much it discharges in about 2 hrs and then after 4 hrs, but it was still at 100%.
I've stored the notebook in a drawer at room temperature (~22°C). So, if the diagnostics are real, I can't think of what could've drained my battery. Any ideas?
EDIT: New idea that came to me: could it be that I closed the lid too fast after selecting shut down, consequently making it sleep instead or not turning off some hardware properly?
EDIT #2: I ended up investigating logs with log show --style syslog. There are some SMC errors saying something like "could not write SMC key". I'm quite new to innards of MacBook, but this sounds to me like it couldn't shut down properly. That would also explain why there are syslog entries from hours after I've shut down the computer and also from the following day.
EDIT #3: About 24hrs. since last recharge and I've switched it on/off several times, and also used it a bit (cumulated usage about 1h), and the battery just recently dropped to 99%. So I'd rule out battery defects and say it was probably a shutdown failure (maybe I closed the lid too fast or maybe some process was blocking the shutdown).


texts: How to mount a disk that was not ejected properly?

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I am using OSX El Capitan 10.11.2

I have an external Western Digital of 1TB

When I ejected I did not do with the properly way and now I am not able to mount

I can see the disk here

But when I open the disk utility it gets stuck here

Anyone has faced something similar?

Thank you


texts: Why doesn't the iMac Pro (2017) support the Apple Pro Display XDR at 6k resolution?

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Apple's Set up and use Apple Pro Display XDR web page does not list the iMac Pro as a supported computer in this section:

  Pro Display XDR supports a resolution of 6016 x 3384 with 10bpc on
  these Mac models:

However, it does list as supported:

  Mac computers with Thunderbolt 3 ports connected to Blackmagic eGPU or
  Blackmagic eGPU Pro

Apple's Use Blackmagic eGPU with your Mac web page states:

  Blackmagic eGPU includes a Radeon Pro 580 graphics processor with 8GB
  DDR5 memory, giving your connected Mac graphics performance that's
  similar to a high-end 27-inch iMac.

  Blackmagic eGPU Pro includes a Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics processor
  with 8GB HBM2 memory. This gives your connected Mac graphics
  performance that's similar to iMac Pro.

iMac Pro, with any of its three built-in graphics options:

Simultaneously supports full native resolution [5120‑by‑2880 (5K)] on
the built-in display at 1 billion colors and:
Two 5120‑by‑2880 (5K) external displays at 60Hz with support for
1 billion colors, or
Four 3840-by-2160 (4K UHD) external displays at 60Hz with support for
1 billion colors, or...

Why is an additional external GPU with the same or lesser capabilities as the built-in iMac Pro GPU needed in order to drive a single external Pro Display XDR at 6k?


texts: Adding a photo to iPhoto by right clicking in the Finder

texts: How does one add iPhoto to the list of choices when right clicking on a photo in the Finder?


texts: Installed openvpn with brew but it doesn't appear to be installed correctly

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I installed openvpn with brew. The installation went fine, no errors or missing dependencies. But now when I try to run it:

users-MBP:~ user$ brew install openvpn
Warning: openvpn-2.3.7 already installed
users-MBP:~ user$ openvpn
-bash: openvpn: command not found

I based myself on this tutorial: https://my.hostvpn.com/knowledgebase/29/OpenVPN-on-Mac-OS-X-via-Homebrew-CLI.html


texts: How to connect to FTP from Finder with '@' in the credentials?

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I haven't been able to connect to an FTP server from Finder, if I use other client there is no problem.

The username I am using to connect is in the form user@domain. The domain part in the user name is not related to the ftp server I am trying to connect to, is just that the user name contains an '@'.

I found a similar issue where the password contains '@', in my case it is in the username.

  found that any password with an '@' symbol in it caused Finder to
  immediately display that error and not even try to send any traffic to
  the FTP server.

For real, is Finder unable to connect to FTP servers if there are '@' in the credentials?

Host is specified here

Then credentials are specified here

It is a common and very simple use case, so it is hard to believe that Finder, the default file explorer doesn't support it.


texts: Writing bash scripts for changing Mac OS / OSX settings?

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I am not sure if I am asking this question properly, but I am trying write a script to change some settings on Mac OS Sierra, similar to this script which sets the clock in the menubar to appear as analog:

killall Dock;
defauls write com.apple.menuextra.clock IsAnalog -bool true;
killall SystemUIServer;

Instead, I would like to select a different keyboard layout which I have created using Karabiner elements, which also appears in the menubar, and I can change it using the mouse.

My question is basically, how can I figure out what commands to put in my script to make changes like this? Is there a way to record commands that are run when making mouse actions, and then simply paste those commands into a script and alias it to some shortcut? Any help on how to become proficient writing scripts like this would be helpful.


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I just bought one of the last Ipod classics and for some reason when its in shuffle mode (songs - artists or playlists), it shuffles to the next track in the middle of the current song. odd? is there a solution?

thanks!


texts: Refurbished Mac: Can you keep old software after time machine restore?

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I've bought a refurbished MacBook Pro (early 2013).

My original one (early 2011) keeps shutting down, so took to repairman who reflowed the logic board (cost 170, didn't work) so payed another150 for him to tinker with it and it came back worse than before, now instead of just turning off it freezes and gives me vertical grey line and repeats the last sound the video I was watching over and ob=ver.

Anyway....... I bought a refurbished one as said, and it has Microsoft 2016. The original Mac has 2010, so I was wondering if there was a way of using time machine to restore (if thats the right word) my old system to the new Mac but keep Microsoft 2016.

Thanks in advance


texts: Enable grep to exactly match the regular expression

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Enable command 'grep' the return the regular expression matched exactly.

Command grep will print a line when the line contains a string that matches an expression, which not handy to search specified content.
For instance, I have vocabulary files with formatting

    **word**
    1. Definition:
    2. Usage
    3. Others

I'd like to retrieve all the words to make a wordlist within files

    grep '\*\*[^*]*\*\*'

It return bulks of content.

How to enable grep to catch only the 'word' ?


texts: How can I create a Saved Search that excludes a specific folder from the results?

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I'm trying to set up a Saved Search of my Mac that will exclude files in a folder called 'XYZ' from the search results. The reason is because I'm getting a ton of false positives from that folder that are difficult to sort through.

Just to be clear, I know you can add folders to a "Privacy" list in the Spotlight preferences, but I don't want to add this folder to that list --because I don't want to exclude it from all future searches, just this specific saved search. Any idea how something like this could be done?


texts: Mission Control app switching is broken - chosen app is NOT focused

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Problem:

Activate mission control
Chose app - eg. Click Safari
Mission control exit animation plays, but an app OTHER than Safari has focus.

I cannot express how frustrating this is. There is another (possibly related) issue also occuring: if I have an app eg. Chrome on a full-screen space, selecting that space will focus it, but another Chrome window from my desktop will then appear in focus, on top of the full-screen Chrome space.

Might help for context:
macOS Sierra lost focus Finder when using mission controls


texts: "Battery is not charging" after updating to MacOS Big Sur

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I just upgraded my MacBook Pro to MacOS Big Sur Version 11.0 Beta, and my battery, even though the power adapted is connected, is showing the message "Battery is not charging", while displaying this (new) icon:

My Mac is indeed not charging, even though the battery source is the power adapter. How is it possible to solve this issue?

UPDATE: This looks like a new feature of MacOS Big Sur. In the Battery settings, there is a new option called "Optimised battery charging" which stops battery charging after 80% to reducing battery ageing. By unchecking this option the battery starts charging again normally.


texts: iphone not recognized by USB (and itunes) by macbook pro

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From following the steps in the official apple support page, it seems my computer is not able to recognize my iphone.

Other similar questions show an "unknown device" of some sort, which in my case isn't there. The phone is charging, so it's somehow connected and the USB port works with my mouse for example.

I've tried what's mentioned here but it didn't work.
Latest itunes version: 12.4.0.119
Latest IOS version: 9.3.2

EDIT
After connecting an ipad, the connection worked via itunes.


texts: How many RAM can i add and who are the manufacturer?

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I have two RAM chips in my Mac. How can i get to know, how many of them can i upgrade? I mean, it could happen, that one (or even two) of them are soldered on…?

And, how is it possible to get out who is the manufacturer of RAM? - three are only cryptical codes, like 0xAD00000000000000… I wouldn't like to buy RAM from manufacturer, who doesn't match with the RAM already installed.

It goes about the following hardware:

MacBook Pro
15 Zoll, 2,4 2,2 GHz
Prozessor  2,2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 128 MB
Serial Number: W874214LX91

RAM:

BANK 0/DIMM0:
Size:   2 GB
Typ:    DDR2 SDRAM
Tact Frequency: 667 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer:   0xAD00000000000000
Part Number:    0x48594D503132355336344350382D59352020
Serial Number:  0x00006170

BANK 1/DIMM1:
Size:   1 GB
Typ:    DDR2 SDRAM
Tact Frequency: 667 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer:   0x7F7F7F7F7F7FC100
Part Number:    0x4232594A55533733464E3120202020202020
Serial Number:  0x00000058


texts: Can I got notified when itunes adds a language to a specific film?

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When I buy movies via German iTunes I like it that they also come with
the original language. Sometimes that changes.

Is there a way to get notified that a film now has more languages ?


texts: MacBook Pro - not booting - going around in loops?

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After a harrowing couple of days, I found this site and am hoping someone can help.

I have a 2011 MacBook Pro which has recently started having problems booting. During a game session (SIMMS), it suddenly shutdown and refused to reboot, and since then I've been unable to use it at all. The MBP has a new install of El Capitan on it but it's been working fine for the last couple of weeks since the install.

I tried Safemode, Recovery mode etc, but it wouldn't boot into any of these either. Eventually I set it to Target mode, and reloaded El Capitan from another "Companion" MacBook Pro. This process went without a hitch.

After loading it, I booted from the "companion" MacBook to make sure the OS was working OK, and it was!

I restarted the "Companion" MBP and ejected the faulty MBP, and tried to restart it normally. No go, still wouldn't boot even with the new OS.

I've tried a number of things to get it to boot, following this fresh install, but all that happening is that it'll get to the Apple Logo, try to boot, shutdown and then go around in circles.

Eventually it'll stop on the gray screen and the fans will startup and keep running.

I'm at the end of my knowledge, so any advice would be welcome!

Thanks


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This is a bit of a long shot since it's about older, unsupported software. I have two computers, an iMac and a MacBook Pro, and both are running OS X 10.14 (Mojave). I'm trying to use Dragon Dictate Version 5, which has been discontinued (in any Mac version) by Nuance. I installed it and used it successfully some years ago, when the software was current, and when both machines were running previous versions of OS X. I stopped using the software for a while, but I'm returning to it now.

On the iMac, Dragon still works fine. On the MacBook, it recognizes text but will not enter it into any application. For example, I can switch between applications by saying "open Mail" or saying "activate Preview", but within an application I am unable to enter any text.  Things I have tried already:

I have made sure that I'm in Dictation Mode, not Command Mode.
I tried using different microphones.
I tried creating a new profile.
I made sure that Dragon has permissions in System Preferences - Security & Privacy – Accessibility to control the computer.
I tried using Spelling Mode.

This wouldn't be urgent if there were a new version of any sort of dictation software for the Mac available for purchase, but as far as I can see, there isn't. The fact that Dragon is still working on my iMac, and partly working on my MacBook, gives me a little bit of hope that I could get it fully working as well on my MacBook.  (I'm aware of the built in speech recognition in OS X, and in fact used it to create most of this post, but it's not quite as flexible as Dragon, e.g. in terms of custom vocabulary or corrections, so it would be great to get that working if I could.)

Any thoughts are welcome – thanks!


texts:
I am trying to open all PDFs in a folder from the Terminal.

When I do

open *.pdf

Preview (my default PDF application), opens only one of them.

Is there a way to get Preview to open all of them?
If not, what other PDF viewer works well for this?

Thanks!

Running Sierra 10.12.6 on a MB Pro.


texts:
I'm trying to install bbcp (which is a fast scp alternative) on MAC, I tried with brew:

$ brew install bbcp
Error: No available formula for bbcp
==> Searching formulae...
==> Searching taps...
homebrew/head-only/bbcp

It looks like the bbcp binaries are not available for OS X! Any idea how to port them?


texts: Is the lock screen PIN secure enough when sending in for repair?

texts:
The button on my wife's iPhone 4 has become unresponsive and I would like to get it repaired. Like most people, the phone contains important emails, documents and photos which she would not like to fall into the wrong hands (identity theft etc.). Due to convenience I probably wont send it into Apple and will take it to a local repair shop instead (not that I would trust Apple much more).

We are not celebrities or big shot executives, so I can't imagine that someone would go to great lengths using special hardware/software. Is the phone's lock screen PIN secure enough to be in the repair shop for a few days? Or can someone take a dump of the phone's contents via the standard USB cable and easily crack it at their leisure.


texts: I accidentally did a hard reset on my mac by doing contorl+c when my mac was booting up. I typed /sbin/fsck -fy because it was supposed to fix my Mac so that it is no longer stuck in safe boot. It said to type reboot, but now my Mac won't start outside of recovery mode. I need help trying to recover data and starting the computer.


texts: For bad and/or marginal blocks on hard disks, can anything be more effective than a single pass of zeros?

texts:
There's a good discussion in Apple Support Communities –

Disk Utility: for bad blocks on hard disks, are seven overwrites any more effective than a single pass of zeros? (2011-04-21)

A highlight:

  Maybe a better way of phrasing my original question … defocusing from
  Disk Utility, considering the secureErase verb of diskutil:

  is a random fill pattern — or the first pass of any type of
  fill pattern associated with level 2, 3 or 4 — any more likely than
  a pattern of zeros to trigger spare block substitution?

  The October 2010 post by Grant Bennet-Alder seems clear enough
  re: the effect of a pattern of zeros.

  Still, I'd like to leave this question open/unanswered for
  a while, in case people have anything to add concerning fill patterns
  for spare block substitution purposes.

Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:

    …  the substitution will happen on the first re-write with Zeroes.
    More passes just takes longer.

– that is: the first re-write, not the first write.

A good discussion but for me, not conclusive. Plus I very recently received, in private, additional information about approaches to blocks that are marginal.

I can't change the title in Apple Support Communities, and ASC prevents discussion in some places, so a move to Ask Different is timely.

Note, at least one linked question (to the right) …


texts: Migration Assistant not recognizing ethernet

texts:
I am currently migrating from a MacBookPro to a desktop.

The desktop is running Sierra and the MacBookPro is running Yosemite. The desktop is a late 2013 (I think) and the MacBookPro I'm not sure. (I think it's 2010 perhaps. can't check because it is currently migrating).

Anyhow, they both have Ethernet ports and I have successfully plugged in an Ethernet cable between them. (complicated task, I know)

However when I use Migration Assistant, it always falls back on wifi, and says it's going to take 155 hours to transfer.
I know the Ethernet cable is good, hence I'm using it currently (remember I already figured it out) and I was not able to connect using wifi.

How can I get Migration Assistant to use the Ethernet connection?


texts:
Is the iOS operating system the same thing as the phone's firmware? Basically, when reinstalling the firmware (such as with DFU mode), are the system files being reinstalled, or something else?

What is the purpose of the firmware on iDevices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad)?


texts: How to change the cursor hotspot in OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion?

texts:
The hotspot of the cursor is on the tip of the internal, black part.

When I enlarge the cursor, the white outline is enlarged as well, so the tip of the white outline and the inner tip of the black body get pretty far from one another. I keep clicking on the white tip (as it's the outermost tip, the "absolute" tip of the arrow).

I know it has always been like that on Macs, I know many of you love it that way. To me it's counter-intuitive (please don't debate this, it's my personal preference and I have found on a few forums that I'm not alone in this, so the answer could be useful to a number of people).

Is there a way to change the cursor hotspot? For example by editing the cursor file and replacing the original one? Where is the cursor file in OS X 10.8.5? Is there any (file as such), or is the cursor some OS method or whatever?

Or, as an alternative, to just download a different cursor (with the hotspot on the outermost tip) and replace the original system one?


texts:
I was just using my iPhone when it suddenly disconnected from Wifi. I went into the Settings app, I tapped on "Wi-Fi" and it froze there (only the app was frozen, I could still close it). So I closed it and tried several times until finally I went into the Wi-Fi setting. It was searching for connections but it just kept searching and didn't even show up my wifi connection. I tried resetting it by holding down the sleep button (the one used to lock/unlock iPhones) and home button simultaneously but it didn't work. I've also tried normal restart by first shutting it down and let it boot up again, problem is still there.

I have restored my iPhone twice from my backup, and restored to factory settings and restored from backup, still the stubborn problem is there.

Sometimes it got worse till the whole iOS froze up for about 10+ seconds. Other apps work perfectly fine. Other settings in Settings app are currently accessible.

Running on iOS 7.1.1.


texts: Connecting iPad 'crashed' the display - black screen but cursor responsive

texts:
Difficult to describe exactly what happened, but best as I can...

Mac Pro 08 running El Capitan; all else up to date.
Plugged iPad into a USB cable coming via the wired keyboard.
Mac screen went entirely black. Mouse cursor was still active, but no keyboard input would be accepted - any command would give the 'oops, wrong key command' beep.
As far as I could tell, all apps were still running correctly, behind the scenes, though the only real evidence was that the internet radio was still playing in Safari.
Unplugging the iPad made no difference.
Prime consideration - I didn't want to hard power-off the Mac, risk losing work &/or [this has happened before] not being able to boot up until I'd fiddled with Disk Warrior/TechTool etc

Incidentally, the iPad shows as Not Charging. I haven't yet investigated whether this is because it's connected through the keyboard rather than directly.

I need to do further research to see what may have been the cause, but I'm going to post an answer myself as to how I got out of the black screen, in case it's useful to others...


texts: Lost Appleid and Password, work phone iphone 5, owner transferred but we need to keep all the data on it

texts:
The owner of the business sold the business including the work mobile which has all client numbers, texts and WhatsApp communications. He did not give us the appleid or password nor do we have access to the email it was registered with and he is not in communication with us. Obviously, we can continue to use the phone but now cannot update any apps like WhatsApp so cannot now use the app.

The data is still relevant to us and we are the owners of the data.

Can we change the appleid, or do something else to allow us to update apps without losing all the data?
I hope someone can suggest something. Many thanks


texts: How can I get my headphones to work with my iPhone?

texts: Am I doing something wrong, or do 1st generation iPhones require particular headphones? My white iPod headphones work, but most of my other ones wont fit? Is the standard solution to purchase an adapter?


texts: How do I know if I need a new hard drive?

texts:
I just received a  MacBook Pro from somebody else because it was running too slow. Booting up takes about 4 minutes.

I have tried formatting the drive and reinstalling the operating system from scratch. The reinstall takes about 8 hours and in the end it doesn't work, or boot up is just as slow as it was before. The computer especially seems to run slow while doing system/hard drive things with it.

I want to know if getting a new hard drive will fix my problems. Is there a way to test my hard drive to know for certain that it is the problem? I don't want to waste my money on a SSD if it's not even going to make a difference.

I've live booted Linux on which runs beautifully on it which is why I'm thinking it is probably the hard drive's fault.

Here are some more details about the MacBook Pro:

OS X El Capitan
Version 10.11.3
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Startup Disk Macintosh HD
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB


texts: Two weeks, my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) started having kernel panics during sleep, effectively turning itself off (With all unsaved data lost, etc) and on while sleeping. I attached one of the crash reports, although I can't seem to find anything relevant in there. Can anybody tell what is the source of the problem and how can I fix it? Thanks.


texts: Display takes a while to come on after sleep and No sound from internal speakers in OS X, but everything is fine in Ubuntu

texts:
My Hardware

Macbook Air Early 2008 (MacbookAir1,1)

OS X Lion 10.7.5

Problems
1) Display backlight is off for minutes after waking.
When I wake up my MBA from a longer sleep or after being off for more than say around 15 minutes, I'll have to wait sometimes up to 5 minutes to use it, if I shine my flashlight through the logo on the back, or onto the screen, I can see that everything is still working perfectly, it's as if I had turned the brightness down to last setting, turning the brightness up with the F2 brightness hotkey doesn't make a difference, although the brightness bar in the little applet goes up. Also I seem to notice a direct dependency in time turned off to the amount of time it takes to come back on. I also know that it isn't still asleep, because, the 'breathing' light at the front goes out.
2) No Sound from Built-In Speakers
This one is perhaps even more of an inconvenience, I don't see any sign of them in SysPrefs Sound Settings, or Audio MIDI Setup, however, I do hear the startup chime, so I knew they were okay. But once I boot into OS X, nothing. Only headphones show in Output Devices, even when said headphone jack is physically removed from the computer. I do however get sound through earphones. And even when they are plugged out, I have no restrictions in volume changing as I have seen with other people on the internet, also this laptop is not capable of digital audio out, so there will be no red light.

When I boot into a Ubuntu Live USB however, everything changes
Everything works like a charm, I can close my clamshell for as long as I want and it the screen pops up as soon as I open it, Speakers work wonderfully and so on.

(Failed) Attempts taken at Resolving Issue

Restarted Laptop
Zapped the living daylights out of the PRAM
Reset the SMC senseless
Reset Sound Card from Terminal
fsck -fy
Unplugging/Replugging display ribbon cable
⌘+⌥+⎋
Booting into both safe and single user modes
Verifying/Repairing Disk Permissions in Disk Utility
Fondling around the headphone jack with a toothpick/matchstick/Q-Tip/Needle
Plugging in and out headphones repeatedly
Blowing into headphone jack
Taking apart computer and removing side port array (including headphone jack)
Reinstalling firmware for BootRom and SMC

Well I attempted to do this, but was informed by yon macbook that I didn't need to and as such wasn't allowed to

Battery Pull/ Power Drain
Fresh Install of OS X Lion

Ubuntu live USB, is the only thing I've tried that yielded any results, and I really don't want to resort to using it as my primary OS :(
EDIT: Internal Speakers actually show up in System Information..forgot to put that


texts: I can't delete or reset password on accounts in Snow Leopard

texts:
I have this strange situation in Mac OS X (10.6.8) wherein 2 accounts cannot be deleted nor can I reset their passwords.

If I try to reset their passwords I get "Reset Password Failed". I have tried booting with an install CD and using the Password Reset Utility - no joy.

If I try to delete the Account using the minus in Accounts, the Full Name disappears from the icon but the icon remains. If I exit Accounts and come back the Full Name is there again with the icon.

If I (sudo and) look at /Users only one of the accounts shows up.

Other things I have tried include doing the same above (password reset, delete account) as root rather than an Account with Admin privileges, Repairing the Disk (did find some problem with the volume but fixed it) and Repairing the Permissions.

Is the Netinfo database corrupted or something? How do I fix this?


texts: Do I need to install CUDA and Nvidia Web Driver to use OpenCL on Nvidia GPU?

texts: I am working on writing OpenCL programs running on a MacBook Pro with built-in Nvidia GPU. I know that OpenCL kernels can run on the CPU, or the integrated Intel GPU. But if I want to configure it to run on the Nvidia GPU, do I need to install CUDA and other Nvidia stuff? Thanks!


texts: Anyone know of a way to make Safari show favicons in Yosemite? I was using Glims under Mavericks but that no longer works.  I tend to have lots of tabs open and sometimes it's easier to find the proper tab by the favicon rather than the text.


texts: Can we run OS X apps inside X11 (XQuartz)?

texts: I'm wondering if that is possible, so that I can use some X11 window manager for everything.


texts:
The icons on my desktop (El Capitan) keep rearranging after every restart.
In the same order as well, when I try to rearrange my icons it will let me do so but after a restart the icons revert to the arrangement.
Any ideas on why and how to fix it?


texts: How can I fix my terminal when editing the PATH in .bash_profile has the startup hang and I get no prompt?

texts:
I am new to the command line and clearly messed up my setup.

macOS High Sierra(10.13.6)
Trying to set up Python and VScode.

My path variable is what I believe is wrong, but Idon't know exactly how to get a shell and fix things.

It is now showing the user name when i go into terminal. After trying everything i tried to follow. https://shellzero.wordpress.com/tag/reset-path-on-mac/
My Terminal now looks like this

My bash profile currently looks like this  when i enter open .bash_profile in new command on terminal

according to the suggestion of the article mentioned above, after entering export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin and save the text file by command+S
I tried to execute source ~/.bash_profile in new command in terminal and the result was

After that i also run the command echo $PATH. and the result was this :

I have no idea what i did. And what i need to do to fix the problem. Any help will be truly appreciated.


texts:
not sure if this is a SuperUser question or AskDifferent question

When I start up my iMac 21.5" (Mid 2011 model) this morning, my screen looks like this:

Then the computer is completely frozen. Is the display card going to die?

using Mac OS X 10.10.3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB


texts: Zip the contents of every sub-folder in a folder in Mac automatically

texts:
I have this folder/file structure

parent folder
--subfolder1
  -sub-subfolder
  -file1
  -file2
--subfolder2
  -sub-subfolder
  -file1
  -file2
...

I want to:

create zip files from the contents of the subfolders. which means,
file1, file2, and sub-subfolder will be zipped, but not the enclosing subfolder.
name each zip file with the name of the folder, like subfolder1.zip,
subfolder2.zip...

I'd prefer that the zip files remain in the related subfolder so it will be:

parent folder
--subfolder1
  -sub-subfolder
  -file1
  -file2
  -subfolder1.zip
--subfolder2
  -sub-subfolder
  -file1
  -file2
  -subfolder2.zip
...

I am hoping that it would be possible with Automator but had no success till now.

My searches resulted in solutions that zip every folder individually with the folder itself, which in this case is not useful for me. I need the contents of the folders to be zipped.

Any ideas?


texts: System partially frozen: cannot alt-tab or force-quit, but can login over AFP... how to fix without hard reboot?

texts:
So I was using Safari on my Mac Pro and randomly, for the first time ever, the system became unresponsive, except I can still move the mouse cursor (which is stuck as an I-beam), and I can login to the machine over AFP, browse its drives, etc.

I prefer not to hard reboot my computer. But I cannot alt-tab out of Safari, I cannot force-quit Safari, and I cannot click on any menus or use the Dock. Which is odd because I can still move the mouse cursor.

This is a really weird type of freeze I've never seen before. This machine has been working flawlessly for five years.

Since I was able to login over AFP, is there anything that I can do to resolve this without hard-rebooting the Mac Pro?

Note: I unplugged all USB, DVI, and FW devices (except my TimeMachine drive) and plugged them back in, to no avail.


texts:
I want to use Tab to switch to the previously-used input source, and ⇧ ShiftTab as the usual tab function.

As a Chinese language user, the key combination I use the most is ⌘ CommandSpace, which selects the previous input source. Since I only have two keyboards enabled, selecting the previous input source is the same thing as toggling between them. For every non-English user, this switch is frequent.

To make it easier, I want to use Tab to switch input sources.
Following this, a ⇧Tab sounds like a good idea to perform the normal function of Tab.

However, System Preferences (as I tried it) only allows the user to set the switch as a combination starting with ⇧ Shift or ⌃ Control.
Is my request unreasonable? Or can it be done?


texts: I just upgraded to OS X Lion. My HP PSC 1350 printer will print but it won't scan. HP's website says to remove, readd, etc, which I tried. It said I could get the generic driver from Apple software update, but nada. How can I scan in Lion with my HP PSC 1350?


texts: using OSX server in conjunction with Windows server

texts: We have a mixed shop, about 60% windows and 40% mac.  The Mac users use the Windows server for sharing files with all users and for access to the internet.  I would like to have a mac server for running backups of the Macs and storing Mac software.  Is it possible to configure things so that the Macs are connected to both servers and using each one for the above-mentioned purposes, using the same cables?  Hang one server off the other, maybe?


texts:
I have a mail message where I typed the email address from a business card. Unfortunately I made a typo, so it bounced. I'd like to open the mail and edit it as if it were a new mail without "Fwd" or "Re" and all that, but I can't find an option do to that with Apple Mail.

Is it possible?


texts:
Where can I find a version of iTunes older than 12.7 for Mac or Windows?

I have both a Windows 10 PC and a MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave.


texts: Missing Night Shift after upgrading to 9.3

texts:
I don't see Night Shift after upgrading to IOS 9.3. I was using beta 9.3, but deleted the profile after I didn't see Night Shift in Display & Brightness after upgrading

Is there something I am missing?
 Using Ipod Touch 5th Gen.


texts:
Using iTunes match, my collection seems peppered with songs that cut out before their full length.

An example: A song would be 5 minutes long, the song timer would show it as being 5 minutes long, but after 3 minutes, the song just cuts out and there's nothing playing for the remaining 2 minutes.

Has anyone else encountered this? Better yet resolved it?


texts: Developing an app for offline music - violate Apple’s policy?

texts:
I recently felt motivated to start working on an app for offline music. I will be using YouTube API to let users search for songs and list suggestions, the option to play those songs and save them for offline listening.

However, I have noticed that most top-rated music apps in Apple Store do not offer offline listening. They are basically “YouTube” but with the ability to lock your screen and continue listening.

So I started wondering what is Apple’s view regarding music downloading for offline use? Do they remove and delete apps which offer this functionality?

I have only once downloaded an app from Apple  App Store which allowed me to save YouTube videos for offline view, and I have been using it since then. Although, it has been removed from Apple app store long ago.

In conclusion, if I develop an app which will store songs for offline use on users’ devices, will my app get rejected and removed from Apple App store? I know that if I just make it require internet and not store it on the device, my app will be just like every other music application there is on the app store.


texts: iOS app store guideline 3.1.4 content codes

texts:
Lately I submitted an app to the App Store, but unfortunately, it has been rejected because based on them it's not in compliance with guideline 3.1.4 content code.

The app is basically messaging app like WhatsApp, but the only difference is that groups can be joined by ten chars code that the app generates.
I tried to explain to Apple that 3.1.4 is not the case and the codes are generated free and that is basically the same as links.
What do you think? What can I say to them?

  3.1.4 Content Codes: Apps may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as license keys, augmented reality markers, QR codes, etc. In limited circumstances, such as when features are dependent upon specific hardware to function, the app may unlock that functionality without using in-app purchase (e.g. an astronomy app that adds features when synced with a telescope). App features that work in combination with an approved physical product (such as a toy) on an optional basis may unlock functionality without using in-app purchase, provided that an in-app purchase option is available as well. You may not, however, require users to purchase unrelated products or engage in advertising or marketing activities to unlock app functionality.


texts: Fix localhost cant provide a secure connection

texts:
I accidently configured  a web-app to force a secure connection i.e. https, and although I have turned this off, I cannot get chrome to forget this error, so whenever I ask for the url of my local development server;

 http://localhost:3000/

Chrome instead returns

https://localhost:3000/

and gives the error

This site can’t provide a secure connection

I have tried Chrome/Clear Browsing data and this does not help.  The app uses ruby on rails and the secure connection was done by setting   config.force_ssl = true.

How do I fix this?


texts: Apple Mail on iOS 10 loses email message when you switch apps?

texts:
Can anyone reproduce this behavior?

Open the "Messages" app on iOS.
Find or create a message that contains an email@address.com.
Click the email@address.com to start a new email. (The Apple "Mail" app should open a window on top of the Messages app.)
Start typing your message.
Suddenly, remember that you have to copy a link from Safari or some other app, so bring up the iOS app switcher by double-clicking the physical home-button.
Switch to the other app, copy the link and switch back to your mail message.

Where is your mail message?


texts: Block prompts when sites detect I'm using iOS

texts: On many forum web sites, if you go to the site on an iPhone/iPod/iPad it prompts to install an app for the site.  But 90% of the time when I visit a forum site, it's because I'm following a search result; I never ever want to install the app. Is there some setting in iOS that disables this kind of prompt?


texts: How to hide screen when logged into remote iMac

texts:
I use Back-To-My-Mac to log into my office computer from home and vice versa.  Normally, after I log into my home laptop, I darken the screen for both energy efficiency and privacy and that works fine.  However, when I log into my iMac at work, I noticed the next day that the screen-darkening trick is virtually pointless as far as privacy is concerned (I share an office).  The lowest brightness setting of the screen on my iMac is nowhere near a level that would prevent others from watching me work.

Is there a way to darken or hide the display on an iMac when logged in remotely?  I've been searching for a solution and cannot find one.


texts: Why is there static noise when playing media at zero volume on iPhone?

texts:
I have iPhone 6 on iOS 10.3.
Recently, while watching a video (not stored on my phone, but on YouTube on Firefox browser) with volume set to zero, I put the bottom speaker on the iPhone to my ear (because in the silence of the room, I heard something), and I heard static, despite volume being zero! I closed the tab, which caused the static noise to stop, then opened the Music app and played a song on zero volume, and when I put the bottom speaker next to my ear, the static noise had come back!

Is this normal? Why is there static noise when media is playing at zero volume instead of no noise?

My Bluetooth is turned off, and the Alerts switch (whatever it's called) is turned off (I.e. You can see the orange line next to the volume buttons).


texts: Disabled SIP, but still can't make changes?

texts:
Disabled SIP, but still can't make changes:

sh-3.2# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),1(dae……
sh-3.2# mkdir PAH-en
mkdir: PAH-en: Read-only file system
sh-3.2# csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: disabled.
sh-3.2# pwd
/System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app/Contents/PlugIns/PAH_Extension.appex/Contents/Resources

go up several levels (no ACLs or xattrs on intermediates)

sh-3.2# pwd
/System/Library
sh-3.2# cd ..;ls -lae@ | head
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@   8 root  wheel   256 Oct 12 16:17 .
    com.apple.rootless     0
 0: group:everyone deny delete
sh-3.2# cd ..;ls -lae@ | head
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@   8 root  wheel   256 Oct 12 16:17 .
    com.apple.rootless     0
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwxr-xr-x   22 root  admin   704 Jan 30 11:54 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel     0 Aug 25 17:26 .localized
drwxr-xr-x   39 root  wheel  1248 Oct 12 16:16 Applications
drwxr-xr-x    5 root  wheel   160 Oct 12 16:11 DriverKit
drwxr-xr-x  116 root  wheel  3712 Oct 18 00:55 Library
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel    96 Aug 24 15:20 Volumes
sh-3.2# pwd
/System

So the xattr says I cannot delete anything, but why can't I create something?

For that matter, if SIP only prevents delete when enabled, why is sudo mkdir rejected here when SIP is on?


texts: iPhone 5 sync won't complete, stalls at waiting for changes to be applied

texts: I have an iPhone 5. Since the latest update to iOS 7, my ripped music won't sync to my phone. The sync stalls at "waiting for changes to be applied". I've run the sync diagnostic, and it indicates there are no problems. I have plenty of room on my phone, and had nearly 2000 songs on it prior to the update. Now, only the purchased tunes sync.


texts:
I had a small video project where I needed to make a mosaic of a handful of different videos. I just wanted them all to play on a loop (they're not all the same duration). I dropped videos into the timeline, stacked on top of each other, and transformed, cropped, and scaled them to the right positions. But the stacked clips are all connected to the main clip, and it causes problems when I try to duplicate a clip; FCPX really doesn't make it easy to keep that copy on the same layer as the source.
I'd like to just have my stacks without connections. Is there any way to disconnect them, and prevent them from connecting next time I paste a copy of a clip? Everything I find online is about moving a clip out of the main timeline while leaving connected clips in place, which is not what I'm trying to do.


texts: How to turn off iPhone 3G without using power button?

texts:
I've looked up various answers, but none of them worked. One involved squeezing the corner near the power button while pressing it, the other involved going into Settings > General > Accessibility but I don't have Accessibility menu for some reason.

I need to turn the phone off to jailbreak it. Anyone know of other methods? Perhaps a command in cmd might turn it off?


texts: Switching AirPods between Mac and iPhone only works by switching Bluetooth off

texts: Once I switch to Mac and then try to switch back to iPhone, it does not automatically connect. I have to turn off Bluetooth and reset. This is very annoying.


texts: I am not able to reinstall os because i forgot my hardisk unlock password

texts:
My Mac is not working and I tried to reinstall ( pressed command and R key while starting). Reached to utilities but when try to reinstall or restore it asks password after selecting hard disk but I forget the password.

In disk utility, I can see Macintosh HD and disk 1 ( Mac OS x base system) but nothing is erasable and even in Macintosh HD heading is coming but below that hard disk is not selectable)


texts: How can I share a Google Drive file to anyone on iOS?

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On iPhone/iOS, is it possible to share a Google doc (or for that matter, any file on Google Drive) with anyone who has the link provided by the "Link Sharing" feature?

I AM able to share with other people who are using my domain/are part of my G Suite.

What I do NOT see is how I can share a file with anyone who has the link.

I CAN perform this task in the web interface, under "Advanced"..

but cannot find similar functionality in the mobile app.


texts: Software to record videos on iphone that doesn't result on video sizes of tremendous sizes

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I often record videos with my phone that are 30 to 1hour 30 minutes long. However, the file sizes that result are ridiculously large. I want a way to still be able to record videos of that length and reduce the size a lot. If quality of the video has to be sacrificed, so be it.

The only way I could think of solving this is by downloading some kind of app that does that.

To tailor answer to my specific use case, consider a description of the type of things I record:

I will use it to record talks, presentations, lectures, etc. I don't need anything that is too crazy.

However, I do have some minimum requirements I expect from the app.

I want to be able to control the quality of the video. If I record 30 minutes to 1 hour 30 minute talks, I don't need it to be HD. Just enough so that I can record the slides or the whiteboard/blackboard. This requirement is to control the SIZE of the video. Videos that are 8 GBs of size or more than 5 GB of size are useless to me.
I need to be able to control how I zoom in and out of my videos. For example, if I can't control very granularly how I close my video is, then it might not be useful.
I also need to be able to send these videos to my actual macbook computer somehow. Connecting it and then downloading it to the macbook pro is a great option.

Using the built in app is terrible for me because the videos are of ridiculous sizes (ranging from 5 to 10 GB size). I just need them to be much smaller and still be able to save them on my computer (and potentially upload them to youtube).

I also downloaded the app VideoCamara+ and its great that it lets me control the quality, but it seems limited in its ability to zoom (it only has two modes of closeness as far as I know).

I have also tried moviePro8 but it seems that its low resolutions results in really bad videos (as far as I can tell). VideoCamara+ has the same setting for low resolutions and its videos are not as bad.


texts: Cannot Add New Apps to Mac Catalina Input Monitoring on Security & Privacy

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I'm trying to get my Wacom Cintiq Pro 13 working over a USB-C cable connection.

The Wacom instructions tell me to drag and drop Wacom Tablet Driver and Wacom Touch Driver into my "Input Monitoring."

However, Input Monitoring will not accept drag and drop. The empty list of apps displays "Apps that have requested access to monitor input from your keyboard will appear here."

What should I do here?


texts: How to restore OS X to out of box / factory experience prior to reselling?

texts: I'm ready to resell my Mac, and I'd like to prepare it for the new user, giving them factory-like out of box experience. Even better, I'd like the system to be fully updated, yet come up with no user accounts, starting into the initial setup as if one just unboxed it. Of course performing the updates and software preinstallation requires to set up a temporary user account :(


texts: How to search for files based on ACL or group permissions

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There are double entries for the group 'everyone' under permissions. This is the state of hundreds of files in the Documents Folder. I don't know how they got there and it's now a big problem for my workflow since upgrading to Mojave [10.14.6] as I have to enter a password if I want to move this file into another folder or move it to the trash.

I can remove the extra group this way:
Mac-Pro:~ user$ chmod -N /Volumes/Mountain_Lion/Users/rjrasch/Documents/Cantare\ Docs/Cantare\ Logo\ samples.pdf
Once I remove the ACL permissions with chmod -N I can move and/or discard the file without a password.

I noticed the man find page list -acl as a primary but I have not been able to create a valid command to locate other files that need this permission removed.
What Unix command do I need in order to search for other files in the Documents Folder so I can fix these types of permissions?


texts: MacOS partition formatted FFFFFFF etc after bootcamp install

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My macOS partition has been changed to FFFFFFF format as seen in the attached images.
There’s a similar question regarding this topic, however I would like to preserve the data on the partition in question. This is the question I’m talking about macOS partition startup Volume type FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF.
Here is what I’m given with the
diskutil list

command:

Once again, if anyone can help me with preserving the data from the partition while fixing it, I’d be incredibly grateful